Visceral Leishmaniasis in a UK Toddler following a Short Trip to a Popular Holiday Destination in Spain

We herein present the case of a 15-month-old with visceral leishmaniasis diagnosed in the UK following a short trip to a popular holiday destination in Spain. Four months after the initial symptoms, the diagnosis was made incidentally on microscopy of a bone marrow biopsy taken for suspected haemato...

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Autores principales: Minakaran, Neda, Soorma, Talha, Ladhani, Shamez N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25180113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/537052
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author Minakaran, Neda
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description We herein present the case of a 15-month-old with visceral leishmaniasis diagnosed in the UK following a short trip to a popular holiday destination in Spain. Four months after the initial symptoms, the diagnosis was made incidentally on microscopy of a bone marrow biopsy taken for suspected haematological malignancy after the child developed hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopaenia, and Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia.
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spelling pubmed-41425292014-09-01 Visceral Leishmaniasis in a UK Toddler following a Short Trip to a Popular Holiday Destination in Spain Minakaran, Neda Soorma, Talha Ladhani, Shamez N. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report We herein present the case of a 15-month-old with visceral leishmaniasis diagnosed in the UK following a short trip to a popular holiday destination in Spain. Four months after the initial symptoms, the diagnosis was made incidentally on microscopy of a bone marrow biopsy taken for suspected haematological malignancy after the child developed hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopaenia, and Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4142529/ /pubmed/25180113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/537052 Text en Copyright © 2014 Neda Minakaran et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142529/
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