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Case Reports
. 2017 Feb 16;11(2):e0005134.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005134. eCollection 2017 Feb.

Visceral leishmaniasis during pregnancy: A rare case report from Greece

Periklis Panagopoulos  1 , Vasileios Mitsopoulos  1 , Antonios Papadopoulos  2 , Spyridoula Theodorou  1 , Chrysoula Christodoulaki  3 , Kyriakos Aloupogiannis  1 , Nikolaos Papantoniou  1
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Visceral leishmaniasis during pregnancy: A rare case report from Greece

Periklis Panagopoulos et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. Amastigote forms of Leishmania in our patient’s Giemsa-stained bone marrow smear.
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