LEISHMAN-DONOVAN DISEASE.

The Leishman-Donovan Body

Leishman-Donovan Infection in Europeans

Sir.?Major Childe's paper in the December issue of the Gazette might induce the belief that the Leishman-Donovan disease rarely affects Europeans. No doubt, other cases have occurred in Bombay as well as elsewhere amongst that class prior to the recognition of the condition as a distinct pathological entity. For instance it is often mistaken for a typical or prolonged enteric fever (paratyphoid...

Leishman-Donovan bodies in the bone marrow biopsy.

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Leishman-Donovan (LD) bodies in bone marrow biopsy of an adult male with AIDS.

doi:10.5152/tjh.2010.36 We report the case of Leishman-Donovan (LD) bodies in the bone marrow biopsy of an Iraqi adult male with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The patient was working in a United States military camp in Baghdad, Iraq. He was diagnosed as having human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection within only a few days of diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar). Vis...

Visceral leishmaniasis in a patient with cutaneous lesions, negative Leishman-Donovan bodies and immunological test: A case report

We report a case of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in a patient from Shush in Iran with cutaneous lesions, negative for Leishman-Donovan bodies, enlarged spleen filled by leishmania protozoa and negative immunological test. The patient was a 26-year-old male, who attended hospital with fever and two deep purulent lesions on the distal part of his left leg. On physical examination, the patient had ...