[leish-l] RE: leish-l digest, Vol 1 #138 - 1 msg

[K.P. Chang]

Various Leishmania species were mentioned by two of the three speakers
for the Symposium on leishmaniasis in Iraq in the Ann Meetng Am Soc Trop
Med Hyg (12/6/03) last week. The first speaker, Dr. Russell Coleman is
an entomologist. He mentioned the finding of L infantum from infected
flies. The 2nd speaker, Dr. Glenn Wortmann is a physician. He identified
clinical isolates as L major by PCR. Those interested in the subject may
wish to contact the speakers directly for accurate and detail
information.

I recall previous descriptions of L major, L tropica and L donovani in
Iraq.

KP

Peter Myler wrote:

> My understanding is that all the cases so far have
> been cutaneousleishmaniasis and have been L. major.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter J. Myler, Ph.D.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leah Landi [mailto:llandi at americasmart.com]
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> Does anyone know if this is confirmed Visceral or Cutaneous and what
> species it comes from???
>
> The most non-toxic medication would be miltefosine.
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>    1. Baghdad Boil -- (Peter Singfield)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:49:24 -0600
> To: leish-l at fat.org.br
> From: Peter Singfield <snkm at btl.net>
> Subject: [leish-l] Baghdad Boil --
>
> New name for cutaneous Leishmaniasis??
>
> Baghdad Boil' disease afflicts 148 GIs in Iraq
>
> 05.12.2003 [17:15]
>
> Nearly 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been diagnosed with a parasitic
> skin
> disease and hundreds more could unknowingly be infected, doctors
> reported
> Thursday.
>
> Doctors fear that soldiers returning from the front may consult
> doctors in
> the United States who have never seen the disease. Complicating
> matters:
> The best drug used to treat it is not licensed in the United States.
>
> Leishmaniasis, which soldiers have coined the "Baghdad Boil," is
> carried by
> biting sand flies and doesn't spread from person to person. It causes
> skin
> lesions that if untreated may take months, even years, to heal. The
> lesions
> can be disfiguring, doctors say.
>
> So far, 148 soldiers have confirmed cases, but hundreds more are
> expected,
> says Army Lt. Col. Russell Coleman, an entomologist who spent 10
> months in
> Iraq with the 520th Theater Army Medical Laboratory. He reported the
> outbreak Thursday to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and
> Hygiene,
> meeting in Philadelphia.
>
> Sand flies are active during warm weather, and soon after U.S. troops
> arrived in Iraq in late March, "we started seeing soldiers basically
> eaten
> alive," Coleman says. "They'd get a hundred, in some cases 1,000 bites
> in a
> single night."
>
> Insect repellents and bed nets are standard issue, Coleman says, but
> many
> units failed to pack them when they were deployed.
>
> The sand flies have vanished with the cooler weather in Iraq, but
> because
> of a long incubation period, lesions may not appear for six months or
> longer after infection occurs. Coleman and Army Lt. Col. Peter Weina,
> a
> leishmaniasis expert still in Iraq, predicted in April that there
> would be
> 400 cases.
>
> All affected soldiers are being sent to Walter Reed Army Medical
> Center in
> Washington, D.C., to be treated with the drug Pentosam.
>
>
> USA Today
>
> Article found at:
>
> http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=28318〈=en
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