Affiliation:
1. Bashkir State Medical University, Ministry of Russia, Ufa
2. City Clinical Hospital Thirteen, Ufa
Abstract
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the parasitic infections with the highest epidemic potential and mortality. The paper describes a clinical case of a 41-year old patient with VL with a long incubation period. The complexity of its diagnosis was the need for differential diagnosis with diseases accompanied by fever, hepatosplenomegaly, and pantocytopenia. Only the detection of the pathogen in the bone marrow punctate could make a diagnosis. Lack of systematic risk-based monitoring of exotic diseases, the low awareness of physicians and the population frequently complicate the timely diagnosis of leishmaniasis.
Publisher
Russian Vrach, Publishing House Ltd.
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