Visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania infantum in a Spanish patient in Argentina: What is the origin of the infection? Case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Martín Sánchez, Joaquina ^a   Navarro Mari, José M ^b   Pasquau Liaǹo, Juan ^b   Salomón, Oscar Daniel ^c   Morillas Márquez, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^c National Ministry of Health   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DIPYRONE; ISOENZYME; KINETOPLAST DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEUKOPENIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIVERING; SPAIN; SPLENOMEGALY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; CUBA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEXICO; PARASITOLOGY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; TRAVEL;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; BONE MARROW; BRAZIL; CUBA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ELECTROPHORESIS, STARCH GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MEXICO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

EID: 10644228452     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-4-20     Document Type: Article

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