Leishmaniasis

Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis with cryosurgery

“…Amphotericin B is a second‐line drug administered by slow intravenous infusion in intractable cases and resistant mucosal disease. The requirement for parenteral administration, frequent monitoring, prolonged treatment, and dangerous side‐effects of the above agents have prompted the search for more convenient and less costly treatment modalities, as shown in Table 2 1,2,6–8 …”

“…Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis is a protozoan disease transmitted through the bite of a sandfly infected with Leishmania parasites. It displays a variety of clinical manifestations that depend both on the infecting Leishmania species and on the immune response of the host 1 …”