Holiday souvenirs from the Mediterranean: three instructive cases of visceral leishmaniasis

Scand J Infect Dis. 2009;41(10):777-81. doi: 10.1080/00365540903104127.

Abstract

With expanding travel activities, visceral leishmaniasis increasingly occurs in non-endemic areas and affects immunocompetent individuals with no other risk factor than holidays at the Mediterranean coast. We report 3 instructive Swiss cases of visceral leishmaniasis presenting with fever of unknown origin and pancytopenia and review current diagnostic and therapeutic concepts.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antimony Sodium Gluconate / therapeutic use
  • Antiprotozoal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Fever / parasitology
  • HIV Infections / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Leishmania donovani / isolation & purification*
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / blood
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / diagnosis*
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / drug therapy
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / parasitology
  • Male
  • Mediterranean Region
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Antiprotozoal Agents
  • Antimony Sodium Gluconate