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Nepal is considered non-endemic for CL and hence the control program is targeted to visceral leishmaniasis (VL)\u00a0only. Here, we report the emergence of CL cases in different parts of Nepal.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We analyzed the CL and VL cases reported to Epidemiology and Diseases Control Division (EDCD), Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal through District Health Information System 2\u00a0(DHIS-2) and Early Warning and Reporting System (EWRS)\u00a0during the past 4\u00a0years (2016\u20132019). Any laboratory-confirmed case was included in the study. Demographic and clinical details of each patient were transcribed into Excel sheets, verified with the case report forms and analyzed.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>VL has been reported in Nepal since 1980, but CL was reported very recently. From 2016 to 2019, 42 CL cases were reported from 26 different hospitals to EDCD which had been diagnosed on\u00a0the basis of clinical presentation, and laboratory findings (demonstration of amastigotes in Giemsa-stained smears and rK39 test results). Majority of the patients (31.0%, 13\/42) visited to the hospital within 1\u20136\u00a0months of onset of lesions. Facial region (38.1%, 16\/42) was the common place where lesions were found ompared to other exposed parts of the body. CL was successfully treated with miltefosine for 28\u00a0days. The majority of CL patients did not have history of travel outside the endemic areas and there was no report of sandfly from these areas.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>These evidences highlight that the Government of Nepal need to pay more efforts on CL and include it in differential diagnosis by clinicians, and plan for an active surveillance when the country is targeting leishmaniasis elimination by the year 2025 with the decreasing number of VL cases.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s41182-021-00359-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,9]],"date-time":"2021-09-09T09:02:47Z","timestamp":1631178167000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Emergence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Nepal"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"49","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0619-9108","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kishor","family":"Pandey","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anup","family":"Bastola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gong","family":"Haiyan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Uttam Raj","family":"Pyakurel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Basu Dev","family":"Pandey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4072-0745","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shyam Prakash","family":"Dumre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"359_CR1","unstructured":"World Health Organization. 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