Visceral leishmaniasis is increasingly reported in immunocompromised patients, including patients with AIDS. We report a case of visceral leishmaniasis in an AIDS patient who presented with pulmonary symptoms and bilateral pleural effusions. Histologic evaluation of pleural fluid and bone marrow revealed histiocytes with intracellular Leishmania amastigotes. Visceral leishmaniasis should be con...

Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease that reemerged in various locations in Brazil in the 1980s and spread to new areas, including the Southeast and Central-West of the country. Previously, visceral leishmaniasis was a disease that occurred in rural areas of the Northeast, mainly affecting children 1. However, most cases of visceral leishmaniasis now come from periurban areas of cities in Northe...

Leishmaniasis is a tropical infection caused by the protozoan, belonging to the group of Leishmania which causes Old World and New World disease. These are typically divided into cutaneous, mucocutaneous, visceral, viscerotropic, and disseminated disease. Cutaneous leishmaniasis in the presence of visceral disease is a rarity. Isolated case reports have documented this occurrence, in the immuno...

In the Americas there are between 4,500 and 6,800 annual cases of severe visceral leishmaniasis, and mortality is estimated to range between 7 and 10%. However, underreporting and subclinical infections mask the real epidemiological importance of visceral leishmaniasis. Control efforts, which have typically focused on insecticide spraying of sand fly vectors and dog culling, have yielded dispar...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a major vector-borne disease in Iran. A focus of VL is present in Shahreza county, Isfahan province, central Iran. The main objective of this study was to determine the probable vectors in this area. METHODS Sand flies were collected biweekly using sticky paper traps, CDC light-traps, and aspirators from outdoors as well as indoors. All f...

BACKGROUND To describe the epidemiological features of pediatric visceral leishmaniasis in southern Iran. METHODS This retrospective study was carried out using local hospital records of VL patients from 2001 through 2009. Data such as age, gender, place of residence, clinical signs and symptoms, treatment, history of recurrence were recorded. The collected data were statistically analyzed us...

There is an urgent need to build Research and Development (R&D) capacity for leishmaniasis and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the Middle East and North Africa. The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 17 viral, bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic infections that often have high morbidity but low mortality, causing disabilities through their impact on child development and ed...

Although cutaneous leishmaniasis is occasionally seen in Australia in overseas travellers and migrants, visceral leishmaniasis has been reported rarely and only in people who were immunocompromised. We describe an 18-year-old immunocompetent man who presented with pancytopenia and a 2-week history of fever and lethargy a year after visiting the Greek Islands. Visceral leishmaniasis was diagnose...

b a ckground: sand flies of subgenus adlerius has a wide geographical distribution in iran and are mostly found in wild form in mountainous areas. they are always considered as probable vectors of visceral leishmaniasis. the ob- jective of this study was to determine the adlerius species and its composition in an endemic focus of zoonotic vis- ceral leishmaniasis in northwest of the country. m ...

INTRODUCTION Hepatosplenic gamma delta T-cell lymphoma is a rare peripheral T-cell lymphoma of cytotoxic T-cell origin with an aggressive clinical course. Chronic immunosuppression has been proposed as a possible pathogenetic mechanism. No association of hepatosplenic gamma delta T-cell lymphoma with visceral leishmaniasis has been described in the past. We describe a case of an adolescent boy ...