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Article: Researchers from Patna University detail new studies and findings in the area of leishmaniasis epidemiology.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 26, 2008
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New research, 'Impact of amphotericin-B in the treatment of kala-azar on the incidence of PKDL in Bihar, India,' is the subject of a report. "Of the two reservoirs of infection of kala-azar i.e., patients of kala-azar and post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL), PKDL provides easy access for the sandfly to pick up the parasites. In the last epidemic of 1977 in India, the importance of PKDL as a potential cause of increase in number of kala-azar cases was ignored," scientists in Patna, India report (see also Leishmaniasis Epidemiology).
"During recent years, we found an increase in the cases of kalaazar whereas cases of PKDL were decreasing in Bihar. We ...