TY - JOUR AU - dos-Santos, Washington LC AU - Pagliari, Carla AU - Santos, Lina G. AU - Almeida, Valter A. AU - e Silva, Thiago LV AU - Coutinho, João de J. AU - Souza, Tulio AU - Duarte, Maria IS AU - de Freitas, Luiz AR AU - Costa, Carlos HN PY - 2014 DA - 2014/09/09 TI - A case of conventional treatment failure in visceral leishmaniasis: leukocyte distribution and cytokine expression in splenic compartments JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 491 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - In this paper we study the distribution of leukocyte populations and of cytokine-producing cells in the spleen of a patient with visceral leishmaniasis resistant to clinical treatment. It is the first attempt to compare the distribution of leukocyte populations and cytokine-producing cells in the splenic compartments of a patient with visceral leishmaniasis with those observed in patients without the disease. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-491 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-14-491 ID - dos-Santos2014 ER -