Holiday souvenirs from the Mediterranean: three instructive cases of visceral leishmaniasis.
With expanding travel activities, visceral leishmaniasis increasingly occurs in non-endemic areas and affects immunocompetent individuals with no other risk factor than holidays at the Mediterranean coast. We report 3 instructive Swiss cases of visceral leishmaniasis presenting with fever of unknown origin and pancytopenia and review current diagnostic and therapeutic concepts.
Buonomano
Roberto
R
Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital and University of Bern, Switzerland.
Brinkmann
Franziska
F
Leupin
Nicolas
N
Boscacci
R
R
Zimmermann
Arthur
A
Müller
Norbert
N
Fux
Christoph A
CA
D000328:Adult; D000967:Antimony Sodium Gluconate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000469:parasitology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007893:Leishmania donovani / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D019083:Mediterranean Region; D014195:Travel
D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents; D000967:Antimony Sodium Gluconate