Human immunodeficiency virus/Leishmania infantum in the first foci of urban American visceral leishmaniasis: clinical presentation from 1994 to 2010

INTRODUCTION: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection with Leishmania infantum or Leishmania donovani, the agents of visceral leishmaniasis (or kala-azar), has become a fatal public health problem in the tropics where kala-azar is endemic. METHODS: The clinical presentation of patients with...

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Main Authors:	Iúri Paz Lima, Marina Costa Müller, Thiago Ayres Holanda, Michael Harhay, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Dorcas Lamounier Costa
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2013-09-01
Series:	Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:	HIV AIDS Kala-azar Leishmania infantum Visceral leishmaniasis
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822013000200156
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