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

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

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004970

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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

Niyamat A. Siddiqui ,

* E-mail: niyamatalisiddiqui@yahoomail.com (NAS); drpradeep.das@gmail.com (PD)

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Vidya N. Rabidas,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Sanjay K. Sinha,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Rakesh B. Verma,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Krishna Pandey,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Vijay P. Singh,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Alok Ranjan,

Affiliation All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Patna, Bihar, India
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Roshan K. Topno,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Chandra S. Lal,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Vijay Kumar,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Ganesh C. Sahoo,

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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Srikantaih Sridhar,

Affiliation CARE India, Bihar, India
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Arvind Pandey,

Affiliation National Institute of Medical Statistics (ICMR), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi India
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Pradeep Das

* E-mail: niyamatalisiddiqui@yahoomail.com (NAS); drpradeep.das@gmail.com (PD)

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India
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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

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

Published: September 28, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004970

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