kala-azar

RESULTS: 100 new cases of Kala-azar admitted in the DMCH, Laheriasarai were randomly selected for the study.

with kala-azar nephropathy, the severity of which can vary from mononuclear interstitial infiltration to a severe, diffuse, inflammatory infiltrate consisting of macrophages, lymphocytes and plasma cells.

In 2008, after test results for kala-azar were positive, she received 30 SSG injections and clinically recovered.

Authors are also thankful to the DMOs of Vaishali, Katihar, Dumka, Gadchiroli districts and their staff for providing the information on kala-azar incidence and use of insecticide in IRS in vector control.

Based on the present study, we postulate that oral zinc supplementation may have an additive effect in the chemotherapy and prevention of visceral leishmaniasis, in the kala-azar endemic regions of Bihar.

* The report provides a snapshot of the global therapeutic landscape of Leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar)

Dr Mondal is a member of the WHO Advisory Panel for Leishmania control and a member of the Regional Technical Advisory Group on Kala-azar Elimination in the Indian subcontinent, South-East Asia Regional Office, WHO, in New Delhi, India.

A diagnosis of "Kala-azar with hepatitis with portal hypertension" was made.

Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis," Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol.

Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is marked by the appearance of non-ulcerative skin lesions with Leishmania parasites, which develop after apparent recovery of kala-azar (KA), though less commonly it has been known to occur in patients who have not suffered previously from visceral leishmaniasis (VL) (1,2).

Sinha, Scientist E, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, participated in the Meeting of the Regional Technical Advisory Group on Elimination of Kala-azar, at Dhaka (December 8-11, 2009).

In 1950s the Government of India under National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) now National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, launched massive insecticidal spraying with DDT for malaria vector control and kala-azar came to a halt in Assam as a collateral benefit of malaria eradication programme (1).

This study deals with the socio-cultural aspects in relation to visceral leishmaniasis or Kala-azar. The objective of the study is to determine the social and cultural factors influencing knowledge, attitude and practices towards Kala-azar in two communities in the Eastern Sudan where Kala-azar is endemic, and to assess the knowledge about the disease and its transmission, symptoms, complications and prevention.

Nadda had also urged officials and nodal officers to visit kala-azar endemic states of Jharkhand and Bihar immediately and draft a report on the present situation in these regions within a week's time.