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ArticleCase reports in medicine2012

Dyarrheal Syndrome in a Patient Co-Infected with Leishmania infantum and Schistosoma mansoni.

Gláucia Fernandes Cota, Luciana Inácia Gomes, Bruna Fernandes Pinto, Joanna R Santos-Oliveira, Alda Maria Da-Cruz, Moisés Salgado Pedrosa, Wagner Luiz Tafuri, Ana Rabello

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Article in Case reports in medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Cryptococcemia presenting as an opportunistic infection due to chronic visceral leishmaniasis.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gláucia Fernandes CotaHospital Eduardo de Menezes, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais (Fhemig), Rua Dr Cristiano Resende, 2213, 30622-020 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil ; Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-FIOCRUZ, Avenida Augusto de Lima, 1715, 30190-002 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Luciana Inácia Gomes
Bruna Fernandes Pinto
Joanna R Santos-Oliveira
Alda Maria Da-Cruz
Moisés Salgado Pedrosa
Wagner Luiz Tafuri
Ana Rabello
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz · BRFundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais · BRUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This case report describes an atypical clinical presentation of visceral leishmaniasis affecting the digestive tract and causing malabsorption syndrome in a patient without recognized immunosuppressive condition. After appropriate treatment for the classical visceral form of the disease, diarrhea persisted as the main symptom and massive infection by Leishmania was detected by histopathology analysis of the duodenal mucosa. Schistosoma mansoni coinfection was also confirmed and treated without impact on diarrhea. New course of amphotericin B finally led to complete improvement of diarrhea. Atypical visceral leishmaniasis involving the gastrointestinal tract is well recognized in HIV coinfection but very rare in immunocompetent patients. The factors determining the control or evolution of the Leishmania infection have not been completely identified. This case stresses the importance of atypical symptoms and the unusual location of visceral leishmaniasis, not only in immunodepressed patients, and raises the possible influence of chronic infection by S. mansoni reducing the immune response to Leishmania.

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PMID23213338
PMCPMC3505658
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