Volume 12, Number 8—August 2006
Dispatch
Changing Pattern of Visceral Leishmaniasis, United Kingdom, 1985-2004
Aeesha N.J. Malik*, Lawrence John*, Anthony D.M. Bryceson*, and Diana N.J. Lockwood*
Table 1
Serologic testing in patients with and without HIV infection*
| VL cases (no. patients) | IFAT |
DAT |
LATEX |
k39 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | – | + | – | + | – | + | – | |
| HIV negative (20) | 18 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| HIV infected (13) | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
*VL, visceral leishmaniasis; IFAT, indirect immunofluorescent antibody test, 1985–1994; DAT, direct antibody agglutination test (beginning in 1989); LATEX, latex agglutination test, 1996–2003; k39, recombinant k39 antigen detection test (beginning in 2002); +, positive result; –, negative result.
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