Unusual Clinical Manifestations of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in an HIV-coinfected Patient and the Relevance of ITS1-PCR-RFLP: A Case Report

Unusual Clinical Manifestations of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in an HIV-coinfected Patient and the Relevance of ITS1-PCR-RFLP: A Case Report

Patients coinfected with Leishmania/HIV can develop atypical forms of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), making it indispensable to identify the etiological agent. We are presenting a postmortemspecie definition by ITS1-PCR-RFLP in a larynx tissue of a patient presented coinfectionLeishmania/HIV. This pa...

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Main Authors: De Godoy NATALIA SOUZA DE, Aiello VERA DEMARCHI, de Souza REGINA MAIA, Okay THELMA, Braz LUCIA MARIA ALMEIDA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018-12-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Parasitology
Subjects:
Visceral leishmaniasis
HIV coinfeccion
Mucocutaneous manifestation
Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi
RFLP
Online Access:https://ijpa.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijpa/article/view/1616

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