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A Forgotten Foe Returns: The Diagnostic Odyssey of Kala‐Azar Masquerading as Myelodysplastic Syndrome in a Post‐Elimination Era [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
We report a diagnostically complex case of visceral leishmaniasis (Kala‐azar) in a 73‐year‐old male from a country where the disease was eliminated in 2023.
Sumaya Khan Mifty, Saiful Islam Chowdhury, Tahmidur Rahman, Tanveer Al Razi Khan, Swagota Roy, Faiza Ahmmed, Md. Sabbir Hossain, Ibrahim Khalil   +7 more
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Interleukin-8 Predicts Fatal Kala-Azar: A Case–Control Study [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Kala-azar is associated with case-fatality rates as high as 10% in certain regions. Early identification of mortality biomarkers can significantly reduce this risk.
Simone Soares Lima, Débora Cavalcante Braz, Vladimir Costa Silva, Teresinha de Jesus Cardoso Farias Pereira, Líndia Kalliana da Costa Araújo Alves Carvalho, Dorcas Lamounier Costa, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa   +6 more
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A case report on para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis: an unresolved mystery [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermatosis that occurs 2–3 years after an apparently successful treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
Md. Mehedi Hasan, Sanghita Banik Proma, Md. Saddam Hossain, Md. Arifuzzaman, Naylla Islam, Md. Abu Bakar Siddique, Amiruzzaman   +6 more
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Application of improved harmonic Poisson segmented regression model in evaluating the effectiveness of Kala-Azar intervention in Yangquan City, China [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Yangquan, China, has taken a series of preventive and control measures in response to the increasing trend of Kala-Azar.
Chongqi Hao, Zhiyang Zhao, Peijun Zhang, Bin Wu, Hao Ren, Xuchun Wang, Yuchao Qiao, Yu Cui, Lixia Qiu   +8 more
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The story of elimination of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in India-Challenges towards sustainment. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
The earliest record of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar, KA, VL) dates back two centuries from Jessore (now in Bangladesh), with 0.75 million deaths in 3 years.
Shyam Sundar
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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. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
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.
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   +13 more
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Trend in cumulative cases and mortality rate among visceral leishmaniasis patients in Eastern Sudan: a 14-year registry, 2002–2015

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Background: Leishmaniasis is one of the neglected infectious diseases of the world. This disease largely affects individuals of low socio-economic level, mainly in developing countries.
Gamal K. Adam, Khalid M. Ali, Yassin H. Abdella, Saeed M. Omar, Mohammed Ahmed A. Ahmed, Tajeldin M. Abdalla, AbdelAziem A. Ali   +6 more
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Intensely clustered outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in a setting of seasonal migration in a village of Bihar, India

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background A visceral leishmaniasis outbreak was reported from a village in a low-endemic district of Bihar, India. Methods Outbreak investigation with house-to-house search and rapid test of kala-azar suspects and contacts was carried out.
Arvind Kumar, Suman Saurabh, Sarosh Jamil, Vijay Kumar   +3 more
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Nutritional status and vitamin A and zinc levels in patients with kala-azar in Piauí, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition and kala-azar (or visceral leishmaniasis) are significant public health problems in different parts of the world. Immunity and susceptibility to infectious and parasitic diseases are directly linked to the host’s nutritional ...
Mísia Joyner de Sousa Dias Monteiro, Maria Nauside Pessoa da Silva, Adriana de Azevedo Paiva, Dilina do Nascimento Marreiro, Liania Alves Luzia, Gilberto Simeone Henriques, Patrícia Helen de Carvalho Rondó, Ingridi de Souza Sene, Ana Tárcila Alves de Almeida, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Dorcas Lamounier Costa   +10 more
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Spatial and temporal variation and hotspot detection of kala-azar disease in Vaishali district (Bihar), India

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2013
Background An improved understanding in transmission variation of kala-azar is fundamental to conduct surveillance and implementing disease prevention strategies.
Bhunia Gouri Sankar, Kesari Shreekant, Chatterjee Nandini, Kumar Vijay, Das Pradeep   +4 more
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