RESUMEN

Report of a case of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in an european boy living in Upper-Volta and whose brother had a merely cutaneous form of the disease. Comments on the role of personnal susceptibility, environment and arthropod vectors. In each given area would it exist a special type of leishmania related to the local vectors and which would give various clinical forms according to a second degree ecological system associating man and parasite.

Asunto(s)

Leishmaniasis Visceral/diagnóstico , África Occidental , Vectores Artrópodos , Preescolar , Humanos , Leishmaniasis/diagnóstico , Leishmaniasis/transmisión , Leishmaniasis Visceral/transmisión , Enfermedades Pulmonares/diagnóstico por imagen , Masculino , Phlebotomus/parasitología , Radiografía , Sudán