Multiple Relapses of Visceral Leishmaniasis in HIV Co-Infected Patients: A Case Series from Ethiopia

• Main Authors: Rezika Mohammed (Author), Helina Fikre (Author), Angela Schuster (Author), Tigist Mekonnen (Author), Johan van Griensven (Author), Ermias Diro (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Elsevier, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a life-threatening protozoan disease caused by parasites belonging to the Leishmania donovani complex. Ethiopia has the highest VL-HIV co-infection rate in the world, with several of these patients presenting with repeated episodes of VL disease (ie,...