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

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

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 operational cost, as o...

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Main Authors: Niyamat A Siddiqui, Vidya N Rabidas, Sanjay K Sinha, Rakesh B Verma, Krishna Pandey, Vijay P Singh, Alok Ranjan, Roshan K Topno, Chandra S Lal, Vijay Kumar, Ganesh C Sahoo, Srikantaih Sridhar, Arvind Pandey, Pradeep Das
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-09-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5040448?pdf=render

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