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Xenodiagnosis to evaluate the infectiousness of humans to sandflies in an area endemic for visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India: a transmission-dynamics study

BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis, also known on the Indian subcontinent as kala-azar, is a fatal form of leishmaniasis caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani and transmitted by the bites of the vector sandfly Phlebotomus argentipes. To achieve and sustain elimination of visceral leis...

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Autores principales: Singh, Om Prakash, Tiwary, Puja, Kushwaha, Anurag Kumar, Singh, Shakti Kumar, Singh, Dhiraj Kumar, Lawyer, Phillip, Rowton, Edgar, Chaubey, Rahul, Singh, Abhishek Kumar, Rai, Tulika Kumari, Fay, Michael P, Chakravarty, Jaya, Sacks, David, Sundar, Shyam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33615281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30166-X