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

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Tapan Bhattacharyya, Duncan E Bowes, Sayda El-Safi, Shyam Sundar, Andrew K Falconar, Om Prakash Singh, Rajiv Kumar, Osman Ahmed, Marleen Boelaert, Michael A Miles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Indian; Rapid Point
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002675; https://doaj.org/article/be49aca10b7f487b81b9279f5f4a8a2f

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...