Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 46 2 2017 02 12 261 264 Moein DOROODGAR School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Masoud DOROODGAR School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Abbas DOROODGAR Dept. of Medical Parasitology, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran 2017 02 07 2017 02 07 Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most common parasitic disease transmitted by vectors in Iran. CL is endemic in many urban and rural parts of Iran and usually caused by two species of Leishmania as L. major and L. tropica transmitted to humans from parasite reservoirs by the bite of female sandflies. We report a case of ocular leishmaniasis with eyelid involvement presentation. The patient was a 70-yr-old housewife woman referred to Health Care Center in city of Kashan, central Iran in 2012. The disease was diagnosed by direct smear, culture, and PCR from the lesion. PCR was positive for L. major. Her lesion was treated with systemic meglumine antimonate (Glucantime) (20 mg/kg/day) for 20 days.     https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/9058 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/9058/5611