Retardo do crescimento em crian？as com rea？？o intradérmica positiva para leishmaniose: resultados preliminares

the objective of this study was to compare growth retardation frequency, and 24-h food intake data of children with or without positive montenegro (leishmanin) test, examined in porteirinha town, brazil. daily nutrient intake was determined by 24-h food intake recall and the anthropometric data were compared to the standard values from who. montenegro-positive (n = 9) and montenegro-negative (n = 17) groups showed similar age (5.5 ± 1.9 vs 6.7 ± 2.3y), and energy (1,456.8 ± 314.8 vs 1,316.2 ± 223.8kcal) and protein (50.4 ± 16.7 vs 49.9 ± 13.9g) daily consumption, respectively. montenegro-positive children had higher percentage of stunting than their montenegro-negative counterparts (44.4 vs 5.9), suggesting that previous leishmania sp infection had negative impact on children's nutritional status.