Sun, sangria and sandflies: Leishmaniasis in an immunosuppressed patient returning from Spain

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-122

  Moore, James ^a   Brown, Kevin ^b  

^a Travel Health Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^b Bideford Medical Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunocompromised; Leishmaniasis; Mediterranean; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; MILTEFOSINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE DURATION; DUODENITIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; GASTRITIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; POROKERATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RASH; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INDURATION; STOMACH BIOPSY; SWEATING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT DURATION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WELLBEING;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL;

EID: 84876773631     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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