Snowball Vs. House-to-House Technique for Measuring Annual Incidence of Kala-azar in the Higher Endemic Blocks of Bihar, India: A Comparison.

• Main Authors: Niyamat A Siddiqui (Author), Vidya N Rabidas (Author), Sanjay K Sinha (Author), Rakesh B Verma (Author), Krishna Pandey (Author), Vijay P Singh (Author), Alok Ranjan (Author), Roshan K Topno (Author), Chandra S Lal (Author), Vijay Kumar (Author), Ganesh C Sahoo (Author), Srikantaih Sridhar (Author), Arvind Pandey (Author), Pradeep Das (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Visceral Leishmaniasis, commonly known as kala-azar, is widely prevalent in Bihar. The National Kala-azar Control Program has applied house-to-house survey approach several times for estimating Kala-azar incidence in the past. However, this approach includes huge logistics and operational cost, as o...