Lingual leishmaniasis complicating visceral disease

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 212-214

  Mazumder, Shirin A ^a   Pandey, Soumya ^b   Brewer, Susan C ^a   Baselski, Vickie S ^b   Weina, Peter J ^c   Land, MacK A ^a   Fleckenstein, James M ^a,d  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLOSSECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEISHMANIASIS; LINGUAL LEISHMANIASIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NIGHT SWEAT; PAPILLOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THRUSH; TONGUE; TONGUE EDEMA; TONGUE ULCER; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHODIDAE; TONGUE DISEASES;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHODIDAE; TONGUE DISEASES;

EID: 77951224122     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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