First visceral leishmaniasis focus in Argentina

Open Access

1 February 2008

journal article
case report
Published by FapUNIFESP (SciELO) in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Vol. 103 (1) , 109-111
https://doi.org/10.1590/s0074-02762008000100018

Abstract

An eight-year old boy from Posadas (27 masculine 23'S, 55 masculine 54'W) was diagnosed with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) during 2006. Lutzomyia longipalpis was discovered in the backyard of his house, while the spread of canine visceral leishmaniasis was confirmed in Posadas. This is the southernmost report of a VL transmission focus and the first in Argentina.

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