Significantly lower anti-Leishmania IgG responses in Sudanese versus Indian visceral leishmaniasis.

• Main Authors: Tapan Bhattacharyya (Author), Duncan E Bowes (Author), Sayda El-Safi (Author), Shyam Sundar (Author), Andrew K Falconar (Author), Om Prakash Singh (Author), Rajiv Kumar (Author), Osman Ahmed (Author), Marleen Boelaert (Author), Michael A Miles (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a widely distributed systemic disease caused by infection with the Leishmania donovani complex (L. donovani and L. infantum), is almost always fatal if symptomatic and untreated. A rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for anti-Leishmania antibodies, the rK39-i...