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- Aalto, Mikko, et al.
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Viskeraalinen leishmaniaasi tunnistamattomana tappavana tautina : [Visceral leishmaniasis as an unrecognized deadly disease]
- 2023
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Ingår i: Duodecim. - : Finnish Medical Society Duodecim. - 0012-7183 .- 2242-3281. ; 139:11, s. 885-891
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease caused by Leishmania parasites and transmitted by Phlebotomine sandflies. It affects primarily children and is fatal without treatment but curable with early treatment. Its clinical features are prolonged fever, wasting, hepatosplenomegaly and pancytopenia. Doctors have limited knowledge about its diagnostics. This leads to incorrect diagnoses and deaths, and the disease remains unrecognized. To break this vicious circle, active search of the disease is needed also where environmental factors are conductive to its presence, but it has never been reported. We describe discovering new foci of visceral leishmaniasis in Northern Somalia, Somaliland and Tanzania.
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