A rare case of visceral leishmaniasis in an immunocompetent traveler returning to the United States from Europe.

• Main Authors: Lamia Haque (Author), Merceditas Villanueva (Author), Armand Russo (Author), Youzhong Yuan (Author), Eun-Ju Lee (Author), Jeffrey Topal (Author), Nikolai Podoltsev (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A young, healthy traveler returning to the United States presented with fever, night sweats, splenomegaly, and pancytopenia. Bone marrow biopsy revealed leishmaniasis (Leishmania infantum), likely acquired in southern France. Although many cases of endemic visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have been repor...