Table 2.
Clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania tropica and L. major in Casablanca between 2010 and 2016.
| Characteristic | Patients n = 99 (%) |
p-value |
Odds ratio |
Multivariate logistic regression 95% CI |
p-value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
L. tropica n = 61(61.6) |
L. major n = 38 (38.4) |
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| Clinical aspects (n = 215 lesions) | ||||||
| Cicatricial lesion/scar | 3 (2.3) | 3 (3.7) | 0.673 | – | – | – |
| Papule | 28 (21.0) | 12 (14.6) | 0.158 | 0.931 | 0.338–0.567 | 0.891 |
| Nodule | 49 (36.9) | 29 (35.4) | 0.635 | – | – | – |
| Ulcer | 19 (14.3) | 18 (22.0) | 0.105 | 1.012 | 0.357–2.864 | 0.983 |
| Vegetant/verrucous | 7 (5.3) | 6 (7.3) | 0.554 | – | – | – |
| Lupoid | 5 (3.7) | 3 (3.6) | 1.000 | – | – | – |
| Subcutaneous nodule | 1 (3.7) | 1 (1.2) | 1.000 | – | – | – |
| Purple red halo | 21 (15.8) | 10 (12.2) | 0.397 | – | – | – |
| Size | ||||||
| <2 cm | 38 (62.3) | 9 (23.7) | 0.001 | 4.378 | 1.694–11.313 | 0.002 |
| ≥2 cm | 23 (37.7) | 29 (76.3) | ||||
| Lesion body location (n = 123 lesions) | ||||||
| Face | 46 (62.2) | 15 (30.6) | 0.001 | 0.264 | 0.105–0.664 | 0.005 |
| Upper limb | 17 (23.0) | 15 (30.6) | 0.230 | – | – | – |
| Lower limb | 10 (13.5) | 17 (34.7) | 0.001 | 0.264 | 0.382–5.084 | 0.615 |
| Trunk | 1 (1.3) | 2 (4.1) | 0.557 | – | – | – |
| Single lesion | 30 (49.2) | 17 (44.7) | 0.667 | – | – | – |
| Multiple lesions | 31 (50.8) | 21 (55.3) | 0.667 | – | – | – |
| Incubation timea | ||||||
| <4 months | 23 (53.4) | 13 (44.8) | 0.471 | – | – | – |
| ≥4 months | 20 (46.6) | 16 (55.2) | ||||
CI: confidence interval.
a
Patients residing in endemic foci were excluded from this analysis.