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- léismeainiáis ionathair Tagairt Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- Kala-Azar | Eingeweide-Leishmaniase | schwarzes Assam-Fieber | Splenomegalia tropica
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- Sainmhíniú durch Leishmania donovani verursachte chronische endemische Erkrankung vor allem in tropischen und subtropischen Laendern, im Mittelmeerraum und in Brasilien bevorzugt bei Kindern Tagairt Reallex Med
- visceral leishmaniasis | VL | kala-azar
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- Sainmhíniú "form of leishmaniasis [ IATE:1686062 ] characterized by high fever, substantial weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver, and anaemia" Tagairt "World Health Organization > Health topics > Leishmaniasis, http://www.who.int/topics/leishmaniasis/en/ [13.9.2011]"
- Nóta "If left untreated, the disease can have a fatality rate as high as 100% within two years.The other main form of leishmaniasis is cutaneous leishmaniasis [ IATE:1511134 ][Leonard] Roger's assertion that the kala-azar epidemic in Assam was an extension of the epidemic fever of North Bengal cannot go unchallenged; nor is it tenable to maintain that the outbreak of Burdwan fever [ IATE:1196184 ] in 1863-74 was a kala-azar epidemic. This will probably remain a matter of controversy until a direct connection between the two is established.COM-EN, based on:Pati, B, Harrison, M. The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Taylor & Francis, 2009. http://books.google.com/books?id=negRwteG6ugC&pg=PA97&dq=%22burdwan+fever%22&hl=mt#v=onepage&q=%22burdwan%20fever%22&f=false [23.9.2011]"
- kala-azar | """maladie noire""" | leishmaniose viscérale | LV
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- Sainmhíniú forme viscérale de la leishmaniose, qui sévit surtout en Inde et au Moyen Orient Tagairt ---