TY - JOUR AU - Aalto, Mikko AU - Sunyoto, Temmy AU - Yusuf, Mohamed Ahmed Ali AU - Mohamed, Abdiaziz Ahmed AU - Van der Auwera, Gert AU - Dujardin, Jean-Claude T1 - Visceral Leishmaniasis, Northern Somalia, 2013–2019 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 153 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We identified visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani in a previously unknown focus in northern Somalia. Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of 118 cases during 2013–2019 in Bosaso, the region’s commercial capital, have raised suspicion of visceral leishmaniasis endemicity status there. KW - Leishmania KW - visceral leishmaniasis KW - Somalia KW - promastigote KW - parasites KW - Leishmania donovani DO - 10.3201/eid2601.181851 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/1/18-1851_article ER - End of Reference