Kala-azar in Zambia: first report of two cases.
Two autochthonous cases of kala-azar, the first such report of the disease from Central and Southern Africa, are described. Both patients presented with generalized macules, papules and nodules without ulceration and both also had tuberculosis. Amastigotes were cultured from blood and identified in skin, bone marrow, liver and spleen.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications; D015024:Zambia