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

Dimas Carnaúba Jr; Cassiana Tami Konishi; Valéria Petri; Isabel Cristina Pedro Martinez; Laura Shimizu; Vera Lucia Pereira-Chioccola

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2009.01.022

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.

Authors

Dimas Carnaúba Jr¹, Cassiana Tami Konishi, Valéria Petri, Isabel Cristina Pedro Martinez, Laura Shimizu, Vera Lucia Pereira-Chioccola

Affiliation

¹ Centro de Referência em DST/AIDS de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

PMID: 19447660
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2009.01.022

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