Case report: Pediatric visceral leishmaniasis caused by leishmania infantum in northern Cyprus

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Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne disease widespread in the Mediterranean basin, including Cyprus. During the last decades no cases were notified from northern Cyprus, but herein three cases of VL (female: 2, male: 1, median age: 24.6 months) diagnosed during their hospital admission between January 2011 and December 2012 are reported. Diagnosis was based on clinical findings; 1 ? 1/64 titer positivity of immunofluorescence antibodies, Leishmania amastigotes in Giemsa-stained slides of bone marrow, as well as molecular identification confirmed that in all three the infecting pathogen was Leishmania infantum. Fever, splenomegaly, and hepatomegaly were the typical clinical findings. First-line treatment with liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome; intravenous, 3 mg/kg) on days 1-5, followed by the same on days 10 and 21 yielded a successful outcome with no relapse in all cases. These confirmed VL cases found within 2 years demonstrate the presence of VL on the island.

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Sayili, A., Ozkan, A. T., & Schallig, H. D. F. H. (2016). Case report: Pediatric visceral leishmaniasis caused by leishmania infantum in northern Cyprus. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 95(6), 1386–1388. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0511

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