Indoor residual spraying for kala-azar vector control in Bangladesh: A continuing challenge.

• Main Authors: Rajib Chowdhury (Author), Vashkar Chowdhury (Author), Shyla Faria (Author), Saiful Islam (Author), Narayan Prosad Maheswary (Author), Shireen Akhter (Author), Md Sahidul Islam (Author), Aditya Prasad Dash (Author), Axel Kroeger (Author), Qamar Banu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent is a fatal disease if left untreated. Between 1994 to 2013, the Ministry of Health of Bangladesh reported 1,09,266 cases of VL and 329 VL related deaths in 37 endemic districts. Indoor residual spraying (IRS) using dichlorodiphenyltri...