Ferreira E, Lucena S, Fonseca G, Barbosa T C, Aquino R B, Lambert J S, Nogueira S A
Hospital Raphael de Paula Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2001 Feb;20(2):224-6. doi: 10.1097/00006454-200102000-00024.
This report describes a Brazilian child perinatally infected by HIV who presented visceral leishmaniasis. She showed the classic clinical features, and diagnosis was made by demonstration of amastigote forms of Leishmania in bone marrow aspirate. She responded well to traditional treatment with meglubine.