Concomitant malaria among visceral leishmaniasis in-patients from Gedarif and Sennar States, Sudan: a retrospective case-control study

Journal article

In areas where visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and malaria are co-endemic, co-infections are common. Clinical implications range from potential diagnostic delay to increased disease-related morbidity, as compared to VL patients. Nevertheless, public awareness of the disease remains limited. In VL-endemic areas with unstable and seasonal malaria, vulnerability to the disease persists through all age-groups, suggesting that in these populations, malaria may easily co-occur with VL, with potentially severe clinical effects

Authors: van den Bogaart, E; Berkhout, MMZ; Nour, ABYM; Mens, PF; Talha, A-BA

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: BioMed Central
• Journal: BMC Public Health
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 332-332
• Publication date: 2013-04-11
• DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-332
• EISSN: 1471-2458
• ISSN: 1471-2458
• Language: English
• Keywords: Jaundice; Internal medicine; Malaria; Odds ratio; Medical record; Anemia; Confidence interval; Visceral leishmaniasis; Pediatrics; Pathology; Concomitant; Leishmaniasis; Medicine; Epidemiology; Retrospective cohort study; Immunology; Public health