Other parasitic diseases found in patients with visceral leishmaniasis

Chunge, C.N.; Gachihi, G.S.; Muigai, R.; Wasunna, K.; Rashid, J.R.; Oster, C.N.; Anabwani, G.

East African Medical Journal 62(2): 118-121

1985


ISSN/ISBN: 0012-835X
PMID: 3930201
Document Number: 243201
Between November 1980 and November 1983, 124 patients with visceral leishmaniasis were examined for coincident parasitic infections. 108 of them came from areas endemic for schistosomiasis mansoni and malaria. None of the patients with visceral leishmaniasis were found with schistosomiasis or malaria. Out of 69 patients with splenomegaly without visceral leismaniasis from the same areas, 24 (35%) had schistosomiasis, 17 (25%) had malaria, 9(13%) had hookworm and none seemed to have both schistosomiasis and hookworm.

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