Table 1.

Geographical distribution and causative species of different CL and PKDL forms.

CL/PKDL form	Leishmania causative species	Geographical location
Self-healing localized cutaneous leishmaniasis (LCL)	OLD WORLD:	OLD WORLD:
	L. major	Afghanistan, Algeria, Ethiopia, Iran, North Sudan, Syria, Sri Lanka
	L. tropica	NEW WORLD:
	L. aethiopica	Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru
	L. donovani
	L. infantum
	NEW WORLD:
	L. amazonensis
	L. mexicana
	L. venezuelensis
	L. braziliensis
Leishmaniasis recidivans (LR)	OLD WORLD:	OLD WORLD:
	L. major	Ethiopia, India, Pakistan
	L. tropica	NEW WORLD:
	NEW WORLD:	Brazil
	L. braziliensis
	L. amazonensis
	L. panamensis
	L. guyanensis
Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL)	OLD WORLD:	OLD WORLD:
	L. major	Ethiopia, Iran, Sudan
	L. tropica	NEW WORLD:
	L. aethiopica	Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
	L. donovani
	L. infantum
	NEW WORLD:
	L. braziliensis
	L. amazonensis
	L. panamensis
	L. guyanensis
Anergic diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (ADCL)	OLD WORLD:	OLD WORLD:
	L. aethiopica	Ethiopia and Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania
	NEW WORLD:	NEW WORLD:
	L. mexicana	Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, U.S.A. (Texas), and Venezuela
	L. amazonensis
Disseminated leishmaniasis (DL)	NEW WORLD:	NEW WORLD:
	L. braziliensis	North-east Brazil, Colombia
	L. panamensis
	L. guyanensis
	L. amazoniensis
Post Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis (PKDL)	OLD WORLD:	OLD WORLD:
	L. donovani	East Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda
		South East Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal