How far are we from visceral leishmaniasis elimination in Bangladesh? An assessment of epidemiological surveillance data.

• Main Authors: Rajib Chowdhury (Author), Dinesh Mondal (Author), Vashkar Chowdhury (Author), Shyla Faria (Author), Jorge Alvar (Author), Shah Golam Nabi (Author), Marleen Boelaert (Author), Aditya Prasad Dash (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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INTRODUCTION:In 2005, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal joined forces to eliminate Visceral Leishmaniasis (or kala-azar) from the region by 2015. In Bangladesh the elimination target is set at less than one new case per 10,000 population per year at upazila (sub-district) level. As the deadline approache...