Towards a sustainable vector-control strategy in the post kala-azar elimination era

R Garlapati, E Iniguez, TD Serafim… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a potentially deadly parasitic disease. In the Indian sub-
continent, VL is caused by Leishmania donovani and transmitted via the bite of an infected …

Inferring transmission trees to guide targeting of interventions against visceral leishmaniasis and post–kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis

LAC Chapman, SEF Spencer… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding of spatiotemporal transmission of infectious diseases has improved
significantly in recent years. Advances in Bayesian inference methods for individual-level …

A Composite Recombinant Salivary Proteins Biomarker for Phlebotomus argentipes Provides a Surveillance Tool Postelimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis in India

E Iniguez, S Saha, G Petrellis… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Incidence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent (ISC) has declined by
more than 95% since initiation of the elimination program in 2005. As the ISC transitions to …

Visceral leishmaniasis on the Indian Subcontinent: Efficacy of fipronil-based cattle treatment in controlling sand fly populations is dependent on specific aspects of …

DM Poché, HH Wang, WE Grant - PLoS Neglected Tropical …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a deadly disease transmitted by the sand fly
Phlebotomus argentipes on the Indian subcontinent, with a promising means of vector …

Spatial modelling of sand fly vector's response to a synthetic sex-aggregation pheromone: impact on the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis in rural and urban settings

R Retkute, E Dilger, JGC Hamilton, MJ Keeling… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a potentially fatal protozoan parasitic disease of
humans and dogs. In the Americas, dogs are the reservoir and Lutzomyia longipalpis is the …

Spatiotemporal analyses of visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent

TM Pollington - 2022 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
The neglected tropical disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has greatly burdened vulnerable
populations in the Indian subcontinent. The analyses in this thesis are motivated by …