Stef Stienstra
Royal Dutch Navy, The Netherlands
Title: Drug delivery by tattooing to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis
Biography
Biography: Stef Stienstra
Abstract
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease that is caused by obligate intra-macrophage protozoa of the Leishmania species. Leishmaniasis can cause different clinical syndromes, including cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), in which the patient generally presents with one or several ulcers (s) or nodule(s) on the skin, resulting from the infection of phagocytic cells located in the dermis. It often results in severe scar tissue in the skin. Most of the twelve million people infected with Leishmania worldwide are CL cases, a 1.5 million new cases occur annually.