Kala-azar in Iran. 22 cases

Rassadi, P.

La Nouvelle Presse Medicale 8(40): 3267-3268

1979


ISSN/ISBN: 0301-1518
PMID: 534187
Document Number: 148555
Visceral leishmaniasis was diagnosed in 22 children (aged 18 months to 12 years) seen at a paediatric hospital in Iran from 1967 to 1975. The most constant clinical findings were fever, marked splenomegaly and a moderate hepatomegaly. Most of the cases (15) were male, probably because sexual differences in clothing allowed sandflies (Phlebotomus major and P. chinensis) to bite boys more easily than girls.

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