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Transpl Infect Dis
; 18(5): 801-804, 2016 Oct.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27495987
ABSTRACT
We report the case of a lung transplant recipient in whom the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was made by detection of parasites in a peripheral blood smear when the parasite load already reached 8.9 × 103 parasites/mL. We demonstrated that the VL diagnosis could have been done months before the development of symptoms by the use of Leishmania-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), suggesting the role of preemptive PCR-based diagnosis in transplant recipients at risk for VL.