Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in patients with HIV infection in Russia. Case report

The article contains information on the problem of the combined course of HIV infection and leishmaniasis: a number of statistical and overview data in the world. It also presents a brief description of known cases of HIV patients with leishmaniasis in the Russian Federation. In all cases the diagnostics of leishmaniasis was difficult due to the lack of alertness of physicians to this illness, as well as poor knowledge of epidemiological situation of leishmaniasis. All patients with visceral leishmaniasis but one caught it during their stay in Crimea. Cutaneous leishmaniasis was described in HIV infection in the Russian Federation for the second time and is associated with the patient's residence in the Chechen Republic.