Bone Marrow Negative Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Adolescent Male

Visceral Leishmaniasis or Kala Azar is endemic in certain regions of India. In endemic areas, the constellation of fever, progressive weight loss, weakness, pronounced splenomegaly, anemia, leukopenia, and hypergammaglobulinemia is highly suggestive of visceral leishmaniasis. Demonstration of the pa...

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Autores principales: Jetley, S, Rana, S, Khan, S, Zeeba, JS, Hassan, MJ, Kapoor, P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23682278
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author Jetley, S
Rana, S
Khan, S
Zeeba, JS
Hassan, MJ
Kapoor, P
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description Visceral Leishmaniasis or Kala Azar is endemic in certain regions of India. In endemic areas, the constellation of fever, progressive weight loss, weakness, pronounced splenomegaly, anemia, leukopenia, and hypergammaglobulinemia is highly suggestive of visceral leishmaniasis. Demonstration of the parasite in liver, splenic or bone marrow aspirates is confirmatory. We present a case in which Leishmania donovani (LD) bodies were demonstrated on splenic aspirate. We were unable to demonstrate LD bodies on bone marrow aspiration.
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spelling pubmed-36552582013-05-16 Bone Marrow Negative Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Adolescent Male Jetley, S Rana, S Khan, S Zeeba, JS Hassan, MJ Kapoor, P Iran J Parasitol Case Report Visceral Leishmaniasis or Kala Azar is endemic in certain regions of India. In endemic areas, the constellation of fever, progressive weight loss, weakness, pronounced splenomegaly, anemia, leukopenia, and hypergammaglobulinemia is highly suggestive of visceral leishmaniasis. Demonstration of the parasite in liver, splenic or bone marrow aspirates is confirmatory. We present a case in which Leishmania donovani (LD) bodies were demonstrated on splenic aspirate. We were unable to demonstrate LD bodies on bone marrow aspiration. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3655258/ /pubmed/23682278 Text en © 2013 Iranian Society of Parasitology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jetley, S
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Bone Marrow Negative Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Adolescent Male
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title_short Bone Marrow Negative Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Adolescent Male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655258/
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