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Visceral leishmaniasis: a threat to immunocompromised patients in non-endemic areas?
- Source :
- Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 13(8)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Visceral leishmaniasis is rare in western Europe, but may be life-threatening in immunocompromised patients. It is therefore important to understand the incidence of the disease in a non-endemic area and its relationship with immunosuppressive conditions. Between 1990 and 2005, 12 patients were diagnosed with leishmaniasis at Basel University Hospital, Switzerland. Eleven presented with visceral symptoms and ten had an underlying immunosuppressive condition. Since increasing numbers of immunosuppressed patients have a history of travel to endemic countries, an association of visceral leishmaniasis with cellular immunosuppression (other than that associated with human immunodeficiency virus) might become more frequent in non-endemic areas.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Leishmania donovani
Disease
Leishmania spp
Immunocompromised Host
Cellular immunodeficiency
Immunopathology
medicine
visceral leishmaniasis
Animals
Humans
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Travel
immunosuppression
biology
Incidence (epidemiology)
Retrospective cohort study
Immunosuppression
Leishmaniasis
General Medicine
Emigration and Immigration
Middle Aged
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Dermatology
non-endemic areas
Visceral leishmaniasis
Infectious Diseases
Immunology
immunocompromised patients
Leishmaniasis, Visceral
Female
Switzerland
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1198743X
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e005ff4f90e5aa2fcd7c9640e162a2f1