Atypical disseminated leishmaniasis similar to post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a Brazilian AIDS patient infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi: a case report

Int J Infect Dis. 2009 Nov;13(6):e504-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2009.01.022. Epub 2009 May 17.

Abstract

We report the case of an atypical disseminated leishmaniasis with similar clinical characteristics to post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis, an uncommon disease in South America. This occurred in a Brazilian patient with AIDS, 3 years after the first episode of American visceral leishmaniasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / parasitology
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Brazil
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • Humans
  • Leishmania infantum / isolation & purification
  • Leishmania infantum / pathogenicity*
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / diagnosis
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / etiology*
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / parasitology
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / pathology
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / complications*
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / drug therapy
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / parasitology
  • Male