Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis: A Paradigm of Paradoxical Immune Reconstitution Syndrome in Non-HIV/AIDS Patients

• Published in: Journal of Tropical Medicine
• Main Authors: Eltahir Awad Gasim Khalil, Selma Abdelmoneim Khidir, Ahmed Mudawi Musa, Brema Younis Musa, Mona Elfaki Eltahir Elfaki, Abdelgadir Mohamed Yousif Elkadaru, Edward Zijlstra, Ahmed Mohamed El-Hassan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Azar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/275253; https://doaj.org/article/5ad55b45ccd84f27a7461d03bbb35490

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a parasitic disease characterized by immune suppression. Successful treatment is usually followed by immune reconstitution and a dermatosis called post-Kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). Recently, PKDL was described as one of the immune reconstitution syndromes (IR...