title: [Association of visceral Leishmaniosis and pulmonary tuberculosis: description of a patient]
abstract: Leishmaniosis, whether localised or disseminated, is mainly correlated to cell-mediated immunodeficiency. Immunodeficient patients are also particularly prone to diseases due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in whom either the disseminated form or a localisation of the lungs prevails. We report a rather uncommon association of both pathologies successufully treated with N-methylglucamine antimonium followed by an association of rifampycin, isoniazid and ethambutol. The ethiopathogenetic mechanisms, are described.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita Federico II, Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: S.
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Montefusco
authors.forename: G.
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gallotta
authors.forename: F.
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lamenza
authors.forename: A.
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Renzo
authors.forename: A.
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Postiglione