Visceral leishmaniasis in a Brazilian child infected perinatally with human immunodeficiency virus.
This report describes a Brazilian child perinatally infected by HIV who presented visceral leishmaniasis. She showed the classic clinical features, and diagnosis was made by demonstration of amastigote forms of Leishmania in bone marrow aspirate. She responded well to traditional treatment with meglubine.
Ferreira
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Hospital Raphael de Paula Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Lucena
S
S
Fonseca
G
G
Barbosa
T C
TC
Aquino
R B
RB
Lambert
J S
JS
Nogueira
S A
SA
D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008536:Meglumine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000077485:Meglumine Antimoniate; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D008536:Meglumine; D000077485:Meglumine Antimoniate