Antibody and cytokine levels in visceral leishmaniasis patients with varied parasitemia before, during, and after treatment in patients admitted to Arba Minch General Hospital, southern Ethiopia.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Dagimawie Tadesse, Alemseged Abdissa, Mekidim Mekonnen, Tariku Belay, Asrat Hailu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arba; Arctic; Indian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009632; https://doaj.org/article/db65e651dbd94f0e90085a6e00e30454

Background Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease caused by disseminated Leishmania donovani infection which affects almost half a million people annually. Most of the patients are reported from the Indian sub-continent, Eastern Africa and Brazil. In this study, we aimed to determine the levels of anti...