EXPANSION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: REPORT OF THE FIRST AUTOCHTHONOUS CASE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF VOLTA REDONDA AND THE DIFFICULTY OF DIAGNOSIS

EXPANSION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: REPORT OF THE FIRST AUTOCHTHONOUS CASE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF VOLTA REDONDA AND THE DIFFICULTY OF DIAGNOSIS

Visceral Leishmaniasis has been showing remarkable epidemiological changes in recent decades, with marked expansion and an emergence of cases in urban areas of the North, Southeast and Midwest regions of Brazil. The Kala-azar cases reported here, despite being very characteristic, presented a great...

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Main Authors: Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis, Sebastião Roberto de Almeida Lima, Cíntia Xavier de Mello, Daniela Trindade Cardoso, Jurema Nunes Mello, Maria Cristina Carvalho do Espírito Santo, Walter Tavares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-06-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Subjects:
Visceral Leishmaniasis
Kala-azar
Epidemiology
Rio de Janeiro
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