PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zavoral, James H.
AU  - Paloucek, James T.
AU  - Yaeger, Robert C.
TI  - Kala-Azar Imported into the USA
DP  - 1972 Sep 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 471--475
VI  - 50
IP  - 3
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/50/3/471.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/50/3/471.full
SO  - Pediatrics1972 Sep 01; 50
AB  - Kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is not an indigenous disease in the United States. Prior to 1945, only nine cases had been reported in this country. Several reports following World War II, estimated that 50 to 75 cases had occurred in American servicemen who had been stationed overseas. Since World War II only three cases have been reported in the United States. Two cases of Kala-azar which were diagnosed in the United States are presented. Leishmania donovani is discussed to alert physicians to the presence of this parasite as a cause of a potentially fatal disease. The children were probably infected with the organism in Spain.