We included adult patients with laboratory confirmed diagnosis of CL, as defined by a positive result on at least 1 of these 3 tests: direct microscopy on Giemsa-stained lesion smears [7], lesion aspirate microculture [28], and qualitative PCR targeting kDNA minicircles [29] on a biopsy specimen obtained from the ulcer border.
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