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Visceral leishmaniasis (Leishmaniasis, Man/Visceral Leishmaniasis, Dum-Dum fever, splenomegalia tropica). This disease is initiated due to an infection with Leishmania donovani or Leishmania infantum.
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Indian: black disease.
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Kala Azar. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_1651-2
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