Visceral Infection Caused by Leishmania tropica in Veterans of Operation Desert Storm

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 19, 1993, Pages 1383-1387

  Magill, Alan J ^a   Grogl, Max ^b   Gasser, Robert A ^a   Sun, Wellington ^a   Oster, Charles N ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; SYMPTOM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027241626     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199305133281904     Document Type: Article

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