Volume 25, Issue 118, December 2021

A case report of herpes zoster in a cutaneous leishmaniasis patient

Azzam I Alkhalifah^1♦, Rayan Alhumaid², Azzam S Alkhalifah², Reem I Alkhalifah³

¹Dermatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Unaizah College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
²AlMulayda College of Medicine, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
³Unaizah College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Dermatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Unaizah College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Saudi Arabia is an endemic area of cutaneous leishmaniasis with L. major and L. tropica being the causative species. A 47-year-old patient presented to the clinic with large plaque of cutaneous leishmaniasis and sporotrichoid nodules. After 20 days of treatment with intravenous meglumine antimoniate, his leishmania improved but he developed large plaques of herpes zoster on the same limb of the leishmania lesion. Herpes zoster has been reported to be induced by systemic treatment with pentavalent antimonials in leishmania patients. In our patient, herpes zoster plaques were localized but involved multiple dermatomes in the same area of the leishmania lesion.

Keywords: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Herpes Zoster, Pentavalent Antimony, Tropical Medicine

Medical Science, 2021, 25(118), 3322-3325

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