Epidemiologic Correlates of Mortality among Symptomatic Visceral Leishmaniasis Cases: Findings from Situation Assessment in High Endemic Foci in India.

• Main Authors: Aritra Das (Author), Morchan Karthick (Author), Shweta Dwivedi (Author), Indranath Banerjee (Author), Tanmay Mahapatra (Author), Sridhar Srikantiah (Author), Indrajit Chaudhuri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is highly prevalent in the Indian state of Bihar and, without proper diagnosis and treatment, is associated with high fatality. However, lack of efficient reporting mechanism had been an impediment in estimating the burden of mortality and its antecedents among...