Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis as a Reservoir for Visceral Leishmaniasis Transmission

Epke A. Le Rutte; Eduard E. Zijlstra; Sake J. de Vlas

doi:10.1016/j.pt.2019.06.007

Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis as a Reservoir for Visceral Leishmaniasis Transmission

Epke A. Le Rutte^*, Eduard E. Zijlstra, Sake J. de Vlas

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Abstract

Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a parasitic skin infection which can occur after visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Recent xenodiagnosis studies (Mondal et al., Clin. Infect. Dis., 2018) have uncovered the infectiousness of PKDL. When including this in a transmission model, PKDL cases appear as an important reservoir of infection, likely frustrating the VL elimination efforts on the Indian subcontinent.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	590-592
Number of pages	3
Journal	Trends in Parasitology
Volume	35
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.06.007
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019

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This work was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling Consortium (grant number OPP1184344 ).

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