Forty years (1980–2019) of visceral leishmaniasis in Nepal: trends and elimination challenges

Pandey, Kishor; Prakash Dumre, Shyam; Shah, Yogendra; Kumar Acharya, Bipin; Khanal, Laxman; Raj Pyakurel, Uttam; Kaneko, Osamu; Dev Pandey, Basu

doi:10.1093/trstmh/trad001

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Forty years (1980–2019) of visceral leishmaniasis in Nepal: trends and elimination challenges

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Authors:

Kishor Pandey

Shyam Prakash Dumre

Yogendra Shah

Abstract

ABSTRACT Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an important re-emerging neglected tropical disease associated with poverty. Despite the elimination initiative started in 2005, VL cases have been expanding into geographic areas in Nepal. The present study aims at exploring the trends of VL from 1...

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