Leishmaniasis

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AS Schultz1 has noted the incidence and prevalence of human leishmaniasis is unknown. It is an endemic, sporadic infection in Central and South America, Africa, southern Europe, Asia and the Orient. It has been neglected by investigators in infectious disease, and much clinical information is still based on impressions rather than on documented fact. Occasionally, military groups have encountered epidemics that have stimulated research — e.g., kala azar, a chronic infection, among British soldiers in India, and cutaneous leishmaniasis in American troops undergoing jungle training in Panama. All forms of leishmaniasis "travel well": kala azar has occurred in British children . . .

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