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. 2020 Jan;26(1):153-154.
doi: 10.3201/eid2601.181851.

Visceral Leishmaniasis, Northern Somalia, 2013-2019

Mikko K Aalto, Temmy Sunyoto, Mohamed Ahmed Ali Yusuf, Abdiaziz Ahmed Mohamed, Gert Van der Auwera, Jean-Claude Dujardin

Visceral Leishmaniasis, Northern Somalia, 2013-2019

Mikko K Aalto et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Jan.

Abstract

We identified visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani in a previously unknown focus in northern Somalia. Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of 118 cases during 2013-2019 in Bosaso, the region's commercial capital, have raised suspicion of visceral leishmaniasis endemicity status there.

Keywords: Leishmania; Leishmania donovani; Somalia; parasites; promastigote; visceral leishmaniasis.

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