Impact of IRS: Four-years of entomological surveillance of the Indian Visceral Leishmaniases elimination programme.

• Main Authors: Rinki Deb (Author), Rudra Pratap Singh (Author), Prabhas Kumar Mishra (Author), Lisa Hitchins (Author), Emma Reid (Author), Arti Manorama Barwa (Author), Debanjan Patra (Author), Chandrima Das (Author), Indranil Sukla (Author), Ashish Kumar Srivastava (Author), Shilpa Raj (Author), Swikruti Mishra (Author), Madhuri Swain (Author), Swapna Mondal (Author), Udita Mandal (Author), Geraldine M Foster (Author), Anna Trett (Author), Gala Garrod (Author), Laura McKenzie (Author), Asgar Ali (Author), Karthick Morchan (Author), Indrajit Chaudhuri (Author), Nupur Roy (Author), Naresh K Gill (Author), Chandramani Singh (Author), Neeraj Agarwal (Author), Sadhana Sharma (Author), Michelle C Stanton (Author), Janet Hemingway (Author), Sridhar Srikantiah (Author), Michael Coleman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>In 2005, Bangladesh, India and Nepal agreed to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as a public health problem. The approach to this was through improved case detection and treatment, and controlling transmission by the sand fly vector Phlebotomus argentipes, with ind...