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Houses in a Visceral Leishmaniasis (kala azar) endemic village in Bihar state (India).
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also know as kala azar, is one of the major public health concerns in Bihar state (India). In the Indian subcontinent, VL is caused by Leishmania donovani which is transmitted by peri-domestic Phlebotomus argentipes sand flies. To date, Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) of households in endemic regions has been unable to control the disease. Vector resistance to the insecticides (i.e. DDT) may be one of the possible reasons explaining this failure (see Dinesh et al., 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000859).
Image Credit: Marc Coosemans, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp
Citation: (2010) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 4(10) October 2010. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(10): ev04.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v04.i10
Published: October 26, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Dinesh et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also know as kala azar, is one of the major public health concerns in Bihar state (India). In the Indian subcontinent, VL is caused by Leishmania donovani which is transmitted by peri-domestic Phlebotomus argentipes sand flies. To date, Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) of households in endemic regions has been unable to control the disease. Vector resistance to the insecticides (i.e. DDT) may be one of the possible reasons explaining this failure (see Dinesh et al., 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000859).
Image Credit: Marc Coosemans, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp