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2018-02-22 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2018-02-22 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Early diagnosis and treatment is the principal strategy to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL), or kala-azar in East Africa. As VL strikes remote rural, sparsely populated areas, kala-az...
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2015-06-30 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2015-06-30 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
There are considerable numbers of patients co-infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) in the VL-endemic areas of Bihar, India. These patients are...
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2004-08-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2004-08-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) cases have been reported in urban residents of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo since 1996. We set up a case-cont...
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2002-02-20 • JAMA
2002-02-20 • JAMA
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2014-06-26 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2014-06-26 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is an important protozoan opportunistic disease in HIV patients in endemic areas. East Africa is second to the Indian subcontinent in the global VL caseload a...
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2002-12-11 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2002-12-11 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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2012-12-13 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2012-12-13 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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2018-07-01
2018-07-01
2.1 OBJECTIVES
2.1.1 General objective:
To document the effectiveness, safety and feasibility of monthly PM secondary prophylaxis (PSP) in VL/HIV co-infected patients t...
2.1.1 General objective:
To document the effectiveness, safety and feasibility of monthly PM secondary prophylaxis (PSP) in VL/HIV co-infected patients t...
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2008-02-07 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-02-07 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was observed in children in Bakool region, Somalia, an area where VL has not been reported before. We describe the extent of the problem in this war- and fami...
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2021-07-01 • Journal of Vector Borne Diseases
2021-07-01 • Journal of Vector Borne Diseases
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
There is limited evidence regarding the accuracy of dengue rapid diagnostic kits despite their extensive use in India. We evaluated the performance of four ...
There is limited evidence regarding the accuracy of dengue rapid diagnostic kits despite their extensive use in India. We evaluated the performance of four ...
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2008-08-01 • AIDS Care
2008-08-01 • AIDS Care
The objective of this cross-sectional household survey was to assess factors influencing HIV risk perception, behaviour and intervention uptake in a community characterised by high HIV p...
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2018-09-01 • Lancet
2018-09-01 • Lancet
Leishmaniasis is a poverty-related disease with two main clinical forms: visceral leishmaniasis and cutaneous leishmaniasis. An estimated 0·7-1 million new cases of leishmaniasis per yea...
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1996-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
1996-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Serogroup A meningococcus epidemics occurred in refugee populations in Zaire in August 1994. The paper analyses the public health impact of a mass vaccination campaign implemented in a l...
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1999-05-01 • Lancet
1999-05-01 • Lancet
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1998-05-30 • Lancet
1998-05-30 • Lancet
BACKGROUND: Since 1990, 500000 people have fled from Liberia and Sierra Leone to Guinea, west Africa, where the government allowed them to settle freely, and provided medical assistance....
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2018-10-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2018-10-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most frequent form of leishmaniasis, with 0.7 to 1.2 million cases per year globally. However, the burden of CL is poorly documented in some regions. ...
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2020-01-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2020-01-29 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND
Bangladesh, India, and Nepal aim for the elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a systemic parasitic infectious disease, as a public health problem by 2020. For decad...
Bangladesh, India, and Nepal aim for the elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a systemic parasitic infectious disease, as a public health problem by 2020. For decad...