Report of an atypical case of leishmaniasis presented as acute tonsillitis in an immunocompetent patient

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 916-918

  Kouyialis, Sofoclis ^a   Archontakis, Stefanos ^a,c   Bilinis, Charalambos ^a   Nikolaou, Stavriani ^a   Stavropoulou, Evgenia ^a   Samaras, Charilaos ^a   Sarafoglou, Christos ^a   Nicolaou, Irene ^b   Parasi, Aikaterini ^a   Minadaki, Maria ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

^b 'Erythros Stavros' Hospital   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; TETANUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CASE REPORT; DOG BITE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EXUDATE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRANULOMA; MALE; PHARYNX DISEASE; PSORIASIS; PUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SORE THROAT; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 30544450919     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500262609     Document Type: Article

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