Human immunodeficiency virus/Leishmania infantum in the first foci of urban American visceral leishmaniasis: clinical presentation from 1994 to 2010

• Main Authors: Iúri Paz Lima, Marina Costa Müller, Thiago Ayres Holanda, Michael Harhay, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Dorcas Lamounier Costa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2013
• Subjects: HIV; AIDS; Kala-azar; Leishmania infantum; Visceral leishmaniasis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Azar
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/50fd18aa7bcb4abfa1b0efced6627742

INTRODUCTION: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection with Leishmania infantum or Leishmania donovani, the agents of visceral leishmaniasis (or kala-azar), has become a fatal public health problem in the tropics where kala-azar is endemic. METHODS: The clinical presentation of patients with H...