title: [Sudanese kala-azar in West Africa (author's transl)].
abstract: Report of a case of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in an european boy living in Upper-Volta and whose brother had a merely cutaneous form of the disease. Comments on the role of personnal susceptibility, environment and arthropod vectors. In each given area would it exist a special type of leishmania related to the local vectors and which would give various clinical forms according to a second degree ecological system associating man and parasite.
mesh_terms: D000354:Africa, Western; D001179:Arthropod Vectors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D010691:Phlebotomus / Q000469:parasitology; D011859:Radiography; D013397:Sudan
vernacular_title: Kala-azar soudanais en Afrique de l'ouest.