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SUBMITTER: Carrillo E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4619795 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carrillo Eugenia E Carrasco-Antón Nerea N López-Medrano Francisco F Salto Efrén E Fernández Laura L San Martín Juan Víctor JV Alvar Jorge J Aguado Jose María JM Moreno Javier J
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20151023 10
Spain has one of the world's largest pools of organ donors and is a global leader in terms of the number of transplants it performs. The current outbreak of leishmaniasis in Fuenlabrada (in the southwest of the region of Madrid, Spain) has involved 600 clinical cases since late 2009 (prevalence 0.2%). It may therefore be wise to monitor the town's transplanted population for Leishmania infantum; its members are immunosuppressed and at greater risk of infection and relapse following treatment. Th ...[more]