Visceral leishmaniasis causes systemic disease, presenting with fever, malaise, weight loss and anaemia, swelling of the spleen, liver and lymph nodes; most of the cases reported worldwide occur in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal and Sudan.
Visceralna leishmanioza povzroča sistemsko bolezen, ki se kaže s povišano telesno temperaturo, slabim počutjem, izgubo telesne teže in anemijo ter otekanjem vranice, jeter in bezgavk. Večina primerov, o katerih so poročali, se je pojavila v Bangladešu, Braziliji, Indiji, Nepalu in Sudanu.