2014 Cilt 12 Sayı 2

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    A pediatric case of concomitant leishmania and brucella infection
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2013-09-30) Canöz, Perihan Yasemen; Tümgör, Gökhan; Bucak, İbrahim Hakan; Leblebisatan, Göksel; İstifli, Fatma Levent; Turgut, Mehmet
    Visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Leishmania Genus, and Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease infecting human host by infective animals. A sixteen year-old girl presented to our clinic with complaints of fatigue, myalgia, pallor, stomach ache, leg swelling, and diffuse body rash. Physical examination revealed findings of elevated body temperature, splenomegaly, upper and lower extremity edema, and diffuse erythema. Patients’ brucella agglutination test was positive at titers 1: 640. Since the treatment of Brucellosis was unsuccessful, other disease processes were investigated and extracellular and intracellular amastigots were detected in the bone marrow aspirate preparations. Kala-azar dipstick (rk-39) was also positive. We present a 16 year-old girl who was diagnosed with Kala-azar and Brucellosis together infection and successfully treated.