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Snowball Vs. House-to-House Technique for Measuring Annual Incidence of Kala-azar in the Higher Endemic Blocks of Bihar, India: A Comparison

BACKGROUND: Visceral Leishmaniasis, commonly known as kala-azar, is widely prevalent in Bihar. The National Kala-azar Control Program has applied house-to-house survey approach several times for estimating Kala-azar incidence in the past. However, this approach includes huge logistics and operationa...

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Autores principales: Siddiqui, Niyamat A., Rabidas, Vidya N., Sinha, Sanjay K., Verma, Rakesh B., Pandey, Krishna, Singh, Vijay P., Ranjan, Alok, Topno, Roshan K., Lal, Chandra S., Kumar, Vijay, Sahoo, Ganesh C., Sridhar, Srikantaih, Pandey, Arvind, Das, Pradeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27681709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004970