Outdoor Residual Insecticide Spraying (ODRS), a New Approach for the Control of the Exophilic Vectors of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis: Phlebotomus orientalis in East Africa.

• Main Authors: Dia-Eldin A Elnaiem (Author), Osman Dakein (Author), Ahmed Mohammed-Ali Alawad (Author), Bashir Alsharif (Author), Altayeb Khogali (Author), Tayseer Jibreel (Author), Omran F Osman (Author), Hassan Has'san (Author), Atia Mohamed Atia (Author), Mousab Elhag (Author), Margriet Den Boer (Author), Koert Ritmeijer (Author), Caryn Bern (Author), Jorge Alvar (Author), Noteila Khalid (Author), Orin Courtenay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) due to Leishmania donovani is a neglected protozoan parasitic disease in humans, which is usually fatal if untreated. Phlebotomus orientalis, the predominant VL vector in East Africa, is a highly exophilic/exophagic species that poses a major challenge to current Integrat...