Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: a decade old story

<p>Visceral leishmaniasis is a vector-borne protozoan disease targeted for elimination from the Indian subcontinent by year 2020. Sri Lanka is a new focus of human leishmaniasis caused by a genetically distinct variant of <em>Leishmania donovani</em>, which is the species more wide...

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Main Authors: HVYD Siriwardana, PH Chandrawansa, G Sirimanna, ND Karunaweera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology 2012-08-01
Series:Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://sljid.sljol.info/articles/4420