ATYPICAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A PATIENT INFECTED WITH HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS

Visceral leishmaniasis is an anthropozoonosis endemic in the south of France. Its occurrence among patients infected with human immunodefici ency virus (HIV), in whom it presents with uncommon clinical, biologic al, and evolutionary signs, is being reported more and more often. We describe a case of leishmaniasis in an HIV-seropositive man that we be lieve is unique with respect to the cutaneous and then visceral locati on of the disease and the discovery at necropsy of an adrenal and myoc ardial leishmanial infiltrate.