Classification of Leishmania species that cause human cutaneous disease*

Classification of Leishmania species that cause human cutaneous disease*

Subgenus	Complex	Species	Main geographic locations	Main clinical manifestations	Other
Old World
Leishmania	L.L. major	L.L. major	India, Pakistan, Central and Southwest Asia, Turkey, areas in Africa, Middle East	Cutaneous leishmaniasis
	L.L. tropica	L.L. tropica	Central and Southwest Asia, Middle East, Turkey, Greece, India, Pakistan, Yemen, Northern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya	Cutaneous leishmaniasis	Leishmaniasis recidivans (LR), occasionally viscerotropic leishmaniasis
	L.L. aethiopica	L.L. aethiopica	Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda	Cutaneous leishmaniasis	Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL), mucosal leishmaniasis
	L.L. infantum (syn chagasi)	L.L. infantum (syn chagasi)	Mediterranean, Northern Africa, Middle East, Central and Southwest Asia, Balkans, China, sporadic in sub-Saharan Africa	Visceral leishmaniasis	Localized cutaneous leishmaniasis (LCL), mucosal leishmaniasis
	L.L. donovani	L.L. donovani	India, China, Pakistan, Southwest Asia, Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda)	Visceral leishmaniasis	Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL), occasional localized cutaneous leishmaniasis
New World
Leishmania	L.L. mexicana	L.L. mexicana	Central and South America, Mexico, sporadic Texas and Oklahoma, United States	Cutaneous leishmaniasis	DCL
		L.L. venezuelensis	Venezuela	Cutaneous leishmaniasis
		L.L. amazonensis	Panama, South America (especially Amazon Basin)	Cutaneous leishmaniasis	DCL, occasionally visceral or mucosal leishmaniasis
	L.L. donovani	L.L. infantum (syn chagasi)	Central and South America	Visceral leishmaniasis	Occasional cutaneous leishmaniasis
Viannia	L.V. braziliensis	L.V. braziliensis	Central and South America	Cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis	Mucosal leishmaniasis (especially Bolivia, Brazil, Peru), disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis
	L.V. braziliensis	L.V. peruviana	Peru and Argentina (western Andes slope)	Cutaneous leishmaniasis
	L.V. guyanensis	L.V. guyanensis	South America (especially Northern Amazon Basin, Guyana, French Guiana)	Cutaneous leishmaniasis	Mucosal leishmaniasis
	L.V. guyanensis	L.V. panamensis	Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	Cutaneous leishmaniasis	Occasional mucosal leishmaniasis

* Not all Leishmania organisms are included here; for example, the Leishmania subgenus Mundinia is not included; it causes cutaneous leishmaniasis and has been reported from Thailand, the Caribbean, Guyana, and Ghana.

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Classification of Leishmania species that cause human cutaneous disease*