Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar is an endemic parasitic disease in some parts of the world which is characterized by fever, splenomegaly, and pancytopenia in most of the cases. Herein we report an 11 month-old male infant with diagnosis of kala-azar who presented with pallor, hepatosplenomegaly, failure to gain weight, and no history of fever. Surprisingly, fever started after beginning of ...

Introduction.?About eighteen months ago, we (Napier and Sen, 1940) published a preliminary paper on the treatment of kala-azar by 4 : 4'-diamidino stilbene. At the time our paper was sent to press, there were in the literature? that had arrived in this country?only two detailed reports on cases treated by this drug (Adams and Yorke, 1939; and Adler and Rachmilewitz, 1939). Since then a small sp...

clinical and laboratory findings of 24 patients with kala-azar are presented here from our survey. kala-azar is such more prevalent than the number of diagnosed cases might suggest and most of them die because of the lack of medical care available locally. malnutrition, poor hygiene and lack of education are important factors in the high mortality rate from this infection.

Case report of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who developed severe neutropenia, splenomegaly and was diagnosed with Felty's syndrome. The patient later developed Kala-azar. Both diseases have similar clinical and laboratory presentation, making the differential diagnosis difficult. The present case report aims at drawing attention to the identification of visceral Leishmaniasis infection i...

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), commonly known as kala-azar is a systemic disease caused by parasitic protozoan species of genus Leishmania and transmitted by species of Phlebotomus (sand flies). It is a poverty-related disease and associated with malnutrition, displacement, poor housing, weakness of the immune system and lack of resources. For the success of prevention and control prog...

Kala-azar as a distinct clinical entity has been recognized in this country for about a century. A number of epidemics occurred in Bengal, and though it was in early stages confused with malaria, failure to respond to specific treatment led to the establishment of its separate entity. This was confirmed in 1903 by the discovery of Leishman-Donovan bodies? the causative organism, by W. B. Leishm...