Visceral leishmaniasis in an immunocompetent Hungarian adult patient
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Visceral leishmaniasis in an immunocompetent Hungarian adult patient
Background: Visceral leishmaniasis caused by L. infantum Nicolle 1908 (Kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae) is very rare in immunocompetent adults. Clinical manifestation of the infection occurs in children and immune-compromised patients associated with AIDS, haemopoietic malignancies or after renal, liver, and heart transplantations in Europe. Hungary is regarded free of leishmaniasis. Except fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1949-4998,1949-5005
DOI: 10.4236/health.2011.31001