Overview
- Provides strategies for the eradication of Visceral Leishmaniasis
- Complete with updated knowledge and real-world information
- Covers basic, clinical, epidemiological and entomological aspects
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction Into Kala-Azar
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Therapeutic Strategy to Deal with Emergence of Drug Resistance
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Diagnostic Strategy Enhancing Kala-Azar Elimination Program
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Pathogenesis of Kala-Azar and PKDL
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About this book
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), (also known as black fever or Kala-azar) is a life-threatening disease first reported from the Indian subcontinent. VL ranks as the world’s second largest parasitic disease killer and is a neglected tropical disease. Most of those infected by this life-threatening disease are uneducated daily wagers working to support their families, and vectors easily disseminate the disease to their neighbors. Owing to recent involvement of stakeholders, the number of patients is decreasing, but eradication remains a distant goal.
This second edition presents latest reports of visceral Leishmaniasis by specialists working at the forefront of the endemic areas in Indian subcontinent. It also introduces vaccine development and inhibitors to Trypanosomatidae; some of them describing feasibility studies in visceral Leishmaniasis for the first time.
Recent progress of the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) is also reviewed and the contents share this collaborative research from the forefront of endemic sites in Bangladesh.
Widely covering basic, clinical, epidemiological and entomological aspects, this volume will be of great interest to dedicated researchers interested inLeishmaniasis and to experts of NTDs in global health.
There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of disease control is bound in shallows and in miseries.
~modified from Shakespeare ~
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Jha’s original research studies have been published in journals like the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and the Journal of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Kala Azar in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Current Status and Sustainable Challenges
Editors: E. Noiri, T.K. Jha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47101-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43611-1Published: 19 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47101-3Published: 11 January 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 309
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Parasitology, Drug Resistance, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Laboratory Medicine, Nephrology