Relationship between treatment regimens for visceral leishmaniasis and development of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis relapse: A cohort study from Bangladesh

Dinesh Mondal; Amresh Kumar; Abhijit Sharma; Moshtaq Mural Ahmed; Md. Golam Hasnain; Abdul Alim; M. Mamun Huda; Ridwanur Rahman; Jorge Alvar; Be-Nazir Ahmed; Rashidul Haque

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007653

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Relationship between treatment regimens for visceral leishmaniasis and development of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis relapse: A cohort study from Bangladesh

Dinesh Mondal ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: din63d@icddrb.org

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 63 Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-8327

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Amresh Kumar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PATH, Dr. Gopal Das Bhawan, New Delhi, India
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Abhijit Sharma,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PATH, Dr. Gopal Das Bhawan, New Delhi, India
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Moshtaq Mural Ahmed,

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 63 Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Golam Hasnain,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 63 Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Abdul Alim,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 63 Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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M. Mamun Huda,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 63 Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Ridwanur Rahman,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh & Universal Medical College Research Centre, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangldesh
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Jorge Alvar,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Chemin Louis-Dunant, Geneva, Switzerland
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Be-Nazir Ahmed,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rashidul Haque

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Disease Division, International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Relationship between treatment regimens for visceral leishmaniasis and development of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis relapse: A cohort study from Bangladesh

Dinesh Mondal,
Amresh Kumar,
Abhijit Sharma,
Moshtaq Mural Ahmed,
Md. Golam Hasnain,
Abdul Alim,
M. Mamun Huda,
Ridwanur Rahman,
Jorge Alvar,
Be-Nazir Ahmed

Published: August 15, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007653

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