Visceral leishmaniasis as an opportunistic infection. Our experience
Masseo, A.; Raimo, C.; Foti, G.; Pellicanò, S.; Foti, N.
Minerva Medica 80(3): 303-304
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4806 PMID: 2717051 Document Number: 338733
A case of visceral leishmaniasis in a female patient suffering from acute nonlymphoid leukaemia is reported. Stress is laid on the atypical nature of the clinical picture, falsified by the underlying disease, and attention is called to the behaviour of Leishmania as an opportunistic agent in the immunodepressed host.
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