Abstract
Leishmaniases comprise a heterogeneous and extensive group of infectious and non-contagious diseases caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania spp. To date, more than 20 species have been identified that can cause visceral or tegumentary impairment in humans. Considered endemic in 92 countries, with around one million new cases of tegumentary forms annually. They have a strict relationship with poverty, environmental changes, population displacements resulting from catastrophes or wars and a lack of public health policies to adequately control them. The World Health Organization considers that more than one billion people are at risk of becoming infected because they live in endemic regions. Classically, the lesions appear in exposed areas of the tegument that have been bitten by the winged vector. In the present report we present a case of a patient with a skin lesion clinically compatible with cutaneous leishmaniasis, in an atypical and rare location on the penis, resulting from the patient’s work habit as he performed his physiological needs in the forest area, the place where he was probably bitten by the winged agent. The diagnosis was confirmed by histological examination of the lesion, aspiration from the edge with identification of the agent, and the patient was treated with liposomal amphotericin with complete regression of the lesion.
Citation
Belda Junior W, Carvalho CHD (2024) American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis of The Penis: An Atypical Location. SM Trop Med J 6: 3.