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To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine of leishmanial amastigotes (Oct. 3 issue)¹ was striking, and the clinical history was unusual, but I was left with several questions: What was the leishmanial species? Was this woman an immigrant from an area with a different level of endemicity? Was the patient tested for antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus?

Thomas A. Moore, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD 20892-0425

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1. García Bueno MJ, Herráez J. Visceral leishmaniasis. N Engl J Med 1996;335:1034-1034. [Free Full Text]

To the Editor: The leishmania shown was not cultured, but the patient's indirect immunofluorescence test was reactive. The test was performed by the National . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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