Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report

Visceral leishmaniasis is the most severe form of leishmaniasis, caused by the obligate intracellular protozoan parasites Leishmania donovani or L. infantum, transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sand fly. Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease of lowlands and uncommon in highlands. We report a case...

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Autores principales: Belbase, Kapil, Shah, Sangam, Dahal, Krishna, Tiwari, Sansar Babu, Neupane, Santosh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9069356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35540720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5817
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author Belbase, Kapil
Shah, Sangam
Dahal, Krishna
Tiwari, Sansar Babu
Neupane, Santosh
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description Visceral leishmaniasis is the most severe form of leishmaniasis, caused by the obligate intracellular protozoan parasites Leishmania donovani or L. infantum, transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sand fly. Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease of lowlands and uncommon in highlands. We report a case of visceral leishmaniasis in 13‐year‐old female patient from a village of Arghakhanchi situated at an altitude of 1200 m.
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spelling pubmed-90693562022-05-09 Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report Belbase, Kapil Shah, Sangam Dahal, Krishna Tiwari, Sansar Babu Neupane, Santosh Clin Case Rep Case Reports Visceral leishmaniasis is the most severe form of leishmaniasis, caused by the obligate intracellular protozoan parasites Leishmania donovani or L. infantum, transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sand fly. Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease of lowlands and uncommon in highlands. We report a case of visceral leishmaniasis in 13‐year‐old female patient from a village of Arghakhanchi situated at an altitude of 1200 m. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9069356/ /pubmed/35540720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5817 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report
title Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report
title_full Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report
title_fullStr Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report
title_short Visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of Nepal: A case report
title_sort visceral leishmaniasis in non‐endemic rural hilly region of nepal: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9069356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35540720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5817
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