This study was undertaken to assess the extent of community awareness and related practices about kala-azar undertaken by them to control the disease, in an highly endemic focus of Bihar, India. A household-based cross-sectional knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) survey consisting of quantitative components on knowledge, attitude, and practices concerning kala-azar was administered to hea...

Several serology-based immunoassays are used to diagnose visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a chronic protozoan parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania donovani complex. These tests are primarily designed to diagnose the most severe clinical form of VL, known as kala-azar. However, leishmanial infection is frequently asymptomatic and may manifest only as a positive serologic response or positive l...

The present study was carried out in 13 Upazillas of 13 endemic districts for Malaria and 15 upozillas of 3 endemic districts for kala-azar in Bangladesh. to assess the current application of techniques for Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention for malaria and kala-azar by the professionals For Malaria, 300 professionals were interviewed of Upazilla Thana Complexes, they apply Examination of periphe...

a relationship between kala-azar and sleepingsickness, and it is natural that any drug which has given good results in cases of sleepingsickness should be tried in kala-azar. Probably the first occasion on which a trypanicidal drug was tried in kala-azar was about the year 1906 when two cases of kalaazar were treated by myself in the Ezra Hospital, Calcutta with a drug called ' arrhenal.' The r...

This is a randomized hospital-based study of fifty cases from either sex-all above the age of twelve years. There were 41 (82%) male and 9 (18%) female patients. 52% of cases belong to low income group and 48% hail from middle class. Occupations of the patients were cultivation (26%), service (24%), studentship (20%), housewife (i 4%) and business (10%). The study shows malignant disorders of h...

Introduction: Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) caused by Leishmania donovani and transmitted by the sand-fly Phlebotomus martini is endemic in certain foci in north-eastern Uganda where it is thought to be confined to Pokot county, Amudat district. Amudat hospital records (April 1998-March 1999) indicated that kala-azar accounted for about 17% of hospital in-patients. However the actual preva...

their spleens by " spleen puncture." Certainly, most of the patients whom we see are sent to us . from the Medical College Hospital Out-patient Dispensary and by local practitioners because they have symptoms which suggest kala-azar. On the other hand, of the patients who are eventually diagnosed kala-azar in the Medical College Hospital, more than half have been admitted not as kala-azar patie...

Since 1990, South Asia has experienced a resurgence of kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis). To determine risk factors for kala-azar, we performed cross-sectional surveys over a 3-year period in a Bangladeshi community. By history, active case detection, and serologic screening, 155 of 2,356 residents had kala-azar with onset from 2000 to 2003. Risk was highest for persons 3-45 years of age, and ...

Objective: The diagnostic role of rK39 enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was compared with the buffy-coat Leishmania nested polymerase chain reaction (Ln-PCR) for kala-azar in an endemic zone of Bangladesh. Methodology: This evaluation study included 100 cases comprising of 60 clinically suspected patients of kala-azar and 40 healthy controls. Anti-rK39 antibody was estimated in plasma ...