Key features ▪ Protozoa are responsible for many tropical diseases that not only affect large regions of the world but also can have different clinical presentations in the Old World versus the New World (e.g. leishmaniasis) ▪ Protozoal infections can…
Introduction Bartonella bacilliformis was described more than 100 years ago as the cause of Carrión disease (CD) but it remained a medical curiosity until the description of bacillary angiomatosis (BA) in the late 1980s. The genus Bartonella has received great…
Key Points HTLV-1. Tropical spastic paraparesia. Infective dermatitis. Crusted scabies. Adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma. Introduction The human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) was the first retrovirus identified, even before the human immunodeficiency virus (initially called HTLV-3). It is a delta retrovirus…
Key Points Free living amebas infection is a CNS disease, mostly fatal, that commonly may present first with a characteristic cutaneous lesion. A history of exposure to soil or water is common. The cutaneous lesion may precede CNS involvement for…