Case report: Consecutive cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis manifestations involving a novel Leishmania species in two HIV patients in Thailand

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-80

  Chusri, Sarunyou ^a   Hortiwakul, Thanaporn ^a   Silpapojakul, Khachornsakdi ^a   Siriyasatien, Padet ^b  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; ITRACONAZOLE; LAMIVUDINE; LOPINAVIR; NEVIRAPINE; PREDNISOLONE; PRIMER RNA; RNA 18S; TENOFOVIR; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; AMPLICON; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOT RETRACTION; BONE MARROW CULTURE; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; CREAM; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INGUINAL REGION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LOTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALLOR; PAPULE; PARIETAL LOBE; PETECHIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN ULCER; SUPPURATION; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; THAILAND;

EID: 84863745284     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0749     Document Type: Article

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