A Prospective Study of Visceral Leishmaniasis in an Endemic Area of Brazil
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 154 (4) , 639-649
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/154.4.639
Abstract
The epidemiology, clinical patterns, and risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis were prospectively studied in an endemic area of Brazil. The prevalence of disease was 3.1% for children Leishmania each year and that the ratio of disease to infection was 1:18.5 for the whole area and 1:6.5 for the section with the highest prevalence of disease. Early diagnosis and therapy altered clinical patterns of the disease.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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