| mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all). | we report a case of mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis (mvl) associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) from the south of iran. the patient, a 12-year-old girl, was known to be a case of all and had bone pain and prolonged fever on referral. a trephine biopsy revealed a hypocellular marrow with many amastigotes. moreover, by specific polymerase chain reaction (pcr) on peripheral blood, a 145 bp band corresponding to kdna from the genus leishmania was detected and the species was identi ... | 2008 | 18463894 |