Livestock and rodents within an endemic focus of Visceral Leishmaniasis are not reservoir hosts for Leishmania donovani.

• Main Authors: Anurag Kumar Kushwaha (Author), Ashish Shukla (Author), Breanna M Scorza (Author), Tulika Kumari Rai (Author), Rahul Chaubey (Author), Dharmendra Kumar Maurya (Author), Shweta Srivastva (Author), Shreya Upadhyay (Author), Abhishek Kumar Singh (Author), Paritosh Malviya (Author), Om Prakash Singh (Author), Vivek Kumar Scholar (Author), Puja Tiwary (Author), Shakti Kumar Singh (Author), Phillip Lawyer (Author), Edgar Rowton (Author), Scott A Bernhardt (Author), Christine A Petersen (Author), Shyam Sundar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leishmaniasis on the Indian subcontinent is thought to have an anthroponotic transmission cycle. There is no direct evidence that a mammalian host other than humans can be infected with Leishmania donovani and transmit infection to the sand fly vector. The aim of the present study was to evaluate th...