Copyright: © 2013 Prajapati VK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL or Kala azar) is a disease of poor and neglected populations; it affects 79 countries of the wor...

Received: Revised: Accepted: November 16, 2013 May 11, 2014 May 30, 2014 The canine is regarded as a reservoir host for human visceral leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean regions. Ten golden jackals were captured from villages that belong to Basrah province, south of Iraq. The animals were inoculated experimentally with human case Leishmania donovani promastigotes, and then the jackals were diag...

Between 2000 and 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières diagnosed and treated 4,831 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Pokot region straddling the border between Uganda and Kenya. A retrospective analysis of routinely collected clinical data showed no marked seasonal or annual fluctuations. Males between 5 and 14 years of age were the most affected group. Marked splenomegaly and anemia we...

a 5-month old puppy with muco-cutaneous lesions in the chin, around lips and eyes was exam­ined physically and microscopically for leishmaniasis. muco-cutaneous lesions containing a large num­ber of amastigotes of leishmania spp. were observed . amastigotes were also detected in liver and spleen of the puppy. the animal was positive with dipstick rk39 kit and high level of anti- leishmania anti...

Background: Until now, the comparison of the rK39 strip test (RKT) and direct ag-glutination test (DAT) for detection of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is exclusively based on either positive or negative qualification of the reaction outcome. Objective: In this study, we compared the diagnostic performance of RKT and DAT for VL both qualitatively and semi-quantitatively. Methods: For comparison ba...