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Case Reports
. 2012 Feb;18(2):354-5.
doi: 10.3291/eid1802.110924.

Leishmania infantum and human visceral leishmaniasis, Argentina

Alejandra Barrio, Cecilia M Parodi, Fabricio Locatelli, María C Mora, Miguel A Basombrío, Masataka Korenaga, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi, María F García Bustos, Alberto Gentile, Jorge D Marco
Case Reports

Leishmania infantum and human visceral leishmaniasis, Argentina

Alejandra Barrio et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Feb.
No abstract available

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Case of autochthonous human visceral leishmaniasis in a 44-year-old man, identified by parasitologic diagnosis and molecular detection of the causative species, Salta, Argentina. A) Leishmania amastigotes in a bone marrow smear. N, nucleus; K, kinetoplast; C, cytoplasm (Giemsa stained, original magnification ×1,000). B) Amplification by nested PCR of cytochrome b gene of Leishmania infantum. Arrow indicates amplified fragment of ≈850 bp. Lane B, blank control; lanes 1 and 2, patient bone marrow aspirate samples; lanes 3–6, samples from Leishmania spp.–negative persons; lane P, positive control; lane N, negative control; lane M, 100-bp molecular mass marker.
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Figure A1
Incidence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in northern Argentina. Map at left indicates location of study area (right). Circle indicates location of farm where the patient (44-year-old man) in this study worked. Light green area indicates dry Chaco region, where VL is endemic and human cases have been found.
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