Fig 1.
Schematic diagram indicating total number of patients recruited following active or passive surveillance in West Bengal.
PKDL: Post Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis, VL: Visceral Leishmaniasis, -ve: negative, +ve: positive.
Fig 2.
Geographical pie distribution of PKDL cases recruited through passive and active surveillance.
A map of West Bengal highlighting the VL-endemic districts from where patients were recruited during active surveillance.
Fig 3.
Impact of surveillance upon gender and lesional distribution in PKDL.
(a) Bar diagram showing the overall distribution of males and females in the PKDL population, as also following passive or active surveillance (b) Bar diagram showing the overall distribution of polymorphic and macular lesions in the PKDL population, following detection by passive or active surveillance.
Table 1.
Demographic profile of patients with PKDL.
Fig 4.
Effect of surveillance and disease duration on parasite load.
(a) Bar diagram showing parasite burden in polymorphic and macular PKDL following passive and active surveillance [Values given in Mean ± SEM] (b) Bar diagram showing median parasite burden in polymorphic vs. macular PKDL with disease progression.
Table 2.
Demographic profile of patients with polymorphic vs. macular PKDL recruited by passive or active surveillance.
Fig 5.
Distribution of lesions and clinical profile of patients with PKDL.
(a) Diagrammatic representation showing the pattern of distribution of lesions in patients with polymorphic PKDL along with representative clinical profiles. (b) Diagrammatic representation showing the pattern of distribution of lesions in patients with macular PKDL along with representative clinical profiles.
Table 3.
Treatment received by PKDL cases during VL.