Visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent: modelling epidemiology and control.

• Main Authors: Anette Stauch (Author), Ram Rup Sarkar (Author), Albert Picado (Author), Bart Ostyn (Author), Shyam Sundar (Author), Suman Rijal (Author), Marleen Boelaert (Author), Jean-Claude Dujardin (Author), Hans-Peter Duerr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In the Indian subcontinent, about 200 million people are at risk of developing visceral leishmaniasis (VL). In 2005, the governments of India, Nepal and Bangladesh started the first regional VL elimination program with the aim to reduce the annual incidence to less than 1 per 10,000 by 2015. A mathe...