Optimizing Village-Level Targeting of Active Case Detection to Support Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination in India

Optimizing Village-Level Targeting of Active Case Detection to Support Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination in India

BackgroundIndia has made major progress in improving control of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in recent years, in part through shortening the time infectious patients remain untreated. Active case detection decreases the time from VL onset to diagnosis and treatment, but requires substantial human res...

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Main Authors: Joy Bindroo, Khushbu Priyamvada, Lloyd A. C. Chapman, Tanmay Mahapatra, Bikas Sinha, Indranath Banerjee, Prabhas Kumar Mishra, Basab Rooj, Kumar Kundan, Nupur Roy, Naresh Kumar Gill, Allen Hightower, Madan Prasad Sharma, Neeraj Dhingra, Caryn Bern, Sridhar Srikantiah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
visceral leishmaniasis
surveillance
epidemiology
India
disease control
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2021.648847/full

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