Fatal visceral leishmaniasis, with massive bone-marrow infection, in an immunosuppressed but HIV-negative Spanish patient, after the initiation of treatment with meglumine antimoniate

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-130

  Garcia Cordoba, F ^a   Ortuno F J ^a   Segovia, M ^a   Gonzalez Diaz, G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MORALES MESEGUER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FLUCONAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISONE; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FATALITY; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; SHOCK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PREDNISONE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 15244364110     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X19810     Document Type: Article

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