Rapid Healing of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis by High-Frequency Electrocauterization and Hydrogel Wound Care with or without DAC N-055: A Randomized Controlled Phase IIa Trial in Kabul

• Ahmad Fawad Jebran ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad Fawad Jebran, Ulrike Schleicher

  Current address: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen and Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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• Ulrike Schleicher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad Fawad Jebran, Ulrike Schleicher

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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• Reto Steiner,

  Current address: Christusträger Communität, Gut Rallingen am Thunersee, Merligen, Switzerland.

  Affiliation Leishmania Clinic, German Medical Service (NGO), Darwaze-e-Lahory, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Pia Wentker,

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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• Farouq Mahfuz,

  Current address: German Medical Diagnostic Center Kabul DK-GMDC Ltd., Kabul, Afghanistan.

  Affiliation Leishmania Clinic, German Medical Service (NGO), Darwaze-e-Lahory, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Hans-Christian Stahl,

  Affiliation Waisenmedizin e.V. Promoting Access to Care with Essential Medicine, Non-Profit Organization, Freiburg, Germany

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• Faquir Mohammad Amin ,

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  ¶‡ Meanwhile retired.

  Affiliation Leishmania Clinic, German Medical Service (NGO), Darwaze-e-Lahory, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Christian Bogdan ,

  * E-mail: christian.bogdan@uk-erlangen.de (CB); stahlkw@orphandrug.org (KWS)

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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• Kurt-Wilhelm Stahl

  * E-mail: christian.bogdan@uk-erlangen.de (CB); stahlkw@orphandrug.org (KWS)

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Waisenmedizin e.V. Promoting Access to Care with Essential Medicine, Non-Profit Organization, Freiburg, Germany

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