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Visceral Leishmaniasis in a Patient with No Apparent Risk Factors: A Case Report

2025-03-06

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<h4>Introduction: </h4> Leishmaniasis is a globally widespread zoonotic infection, including in the Mediterranean basin. There are four known types of disease: cutaneous, mucocutaneous, visceral and post Kala-Azar dermal leishmaniasis. Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania (L.) infantum and L. donovani. It manifests through general symptoms, hepatosplenomegaly and pancytopenia in children younger tha...

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Literature Corpus work: 37f7b00d-3bc7-5443-877c-c21568186a80
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202503.0388.v1

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