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To the Editor: In their report (May 13 issue) on visceral infection caused by Leishmania tropica in veterans of Operation Desert Storm,¹ Magill et al. provide good laboratory evidence of infection. But were the infections actually acquired as a result of service in Saudi Arabia and the Desert Storm campaign? A brief reminder of the epidemiologic, entomologic, and geographic determinants of leishmania transmission might have been helpful in determining the possible source of the infections.

The authors note that kala-azar is rare in Saudi Arabia but do not state whether similar cases have been seen in the local population or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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