Control of the Leishmaniases: Report of a Meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Control of Leishmaniases. WHO Technical Report Series, No. 949 (World Health Organization)

Published by World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland), 2010. ISBN-13 9789241209496. Contains 199 pages. Price US$30.00

Leishmaniasis rarely arises in clinical practice in New Zealand but there is a trickle of refugees from Afghanistan and travellers from South America or the Mediterranean region who present for diagnosis and treatment.

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Because it seldom seen, it is regarded here as a curiosity for the infectious diseases cognoscenti, but from a global perspective Leishmania occurs among the poorest of the poor and has shown a troublesome ability to spread and cause epidemics.

Visceral Leishmaniasis almost disappeared...