Successful Treatment of Rapidly Evolving Cutaneous Leishmaniasis With Amphotericin B and Miltefosine in an Immigrant From Venezuela

Danielle M Mullis; Evan Shegog; Lucy Studemeister; Michael Hwang

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofad683

Successful Treatment of Rapidly Evolving Cutaneous Leishmaniasis With Amphotericin B and Miltefosine in an Immigrant From Venezuela

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Dec 28;11(2):ofad683. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad683. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Danielle M Mullis¹, Evan Shegog², Lucy Studemeister², Michael Hwang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, USA.

Abstract

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease uncommonly encountered in the United States. This case report describes a 54-year-old man presenting with rapidly progressing, pruritic, painful ulcerative lesions after recently immigrating from Venezuela. A punch biopsy confirmed infection with Leishmaniasis braziliensis. He was successfully treated with amphotericin B and miltefosine.

Keywords: Leishmaniasis braziliensis; leishmaniasis; miltefosine.