AMERICAN VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN COLOMBIA
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AMERICAN VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IS A GENERALIZED CHRONIC INFECTIOUS DI SEASE CHARACTERIZED BY FEVER, HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY, LYMPHADENOPATHY, ANE MIA WITH LEUKOPENIA AND PROGRESSIVE WEAKNESS, WHICH PRODUCES HIGH MORTA LITY AMONG CHILDREN. IT IS A ZOONOSIS OF CANINES, BOTH WILD (FOXES) AND DOMESTICATED (DOGS), IN WHICH THE INFECTION IS TRANSMITTED FROM ANIMAL TO ANIMAL, BY LUTZOMYA LONGIPALPIS, WHICH BITES BOTH FOXES, AND DOGS AND MAN S:1939-1942
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