Abstract
The autor presents case studies of skin leishmaniosis from her own practice in the Centre of Travel Medicine which deals with workers going abroad. Three workers, got ill during the construction of a refinery in Iraq.
Symptoms of the disease occurred on the wrist, forearm and knee. One electrical engineer worked on the construction of the road in Libya, the symptoms of the disease occurred on the wrist and crus.
Another electrical engineer got ill with the skin from on face during the construction of a brewery in Etiopia. The service technician got ill during the 3.5 month stay in Sudan, symptoms occured on the neck, forearm and wrist.
There were some hesitations the initial diagnosis made abroad, patients were treated for pyoderma without succes, some cases were treated surgically by removing the locus. Recently, the disease was treated by antimycotic preparations (Nizoral, Sporanox).
The treatment is always a longterm procedure. All cases were reported and compensated as occupational diseases.