SHORT REPORT - EXTENDED FOLLOW-UP OF THE NATURAL-HISTORY OF PERSONS INFECTED WITH LEISHMANIA-CHAGASI

Authors
EVANS TG TEIXEIRA J SOUSA AD PEARSON RD
Citation
Tg. Evans et al., SHORT REPORT - EXTENDED FOLLOW-UP OF THE NATURAL-HISTORY OF PERSONS INFECTED WITH LEISHMANIA-CHAGASI, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 53(4), 1995, pp. 360-361
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Tropical Medicine
Journal title
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029637
Volume
53
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
360 - 361
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9637(1995)53:4<360:SR-EFO>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A five-year follow-up of the natural history of 924 children exposed t o or infected with Leishmania chagasi was conducted in a rural area of northeast Brazil. Seventy-eight percent of the children sought were l ocated. There was no evidence of smoldering disease or long subclinica l latency in this population. The overall prevalence of clinical visce ral leishmaniasis in this population was 6.1%, with a mortality rate o f 10%.