Visceral Leishmaniasis, Northern Somalia, 2013-2019.

ABSTRACT: We identified visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani in a previously unknown focus in northern Somalia. Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of 118 cases during 2013-2019 in Bosaso, the region's commercial capital, have raised suspicion of visceral leishmaniasis endemicity status there.

SUBMITTER: Aalto MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924893 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature