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Paediatric visceral leishmaniasis: a retrospective study on clinical manifestations,demographic features and laboratory findings of hospitalised cases in Iran between 2006 and 2016
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected disease. Our retrospective study describes 38 clinical and epidemiological characteristics of VL in patients admitted to a paediatric hospital in Tehran, Iran, who came from different geographical regions, indicating that the disease has spread to most parts of the country. Some 76.3% of the children documented suffered with symptoms of the disease for two months before admission.
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