The potential impact of human visceral leishmaniasis vaccines on population incidence.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Epke A Le Rutte, Luc E Coffeng, Stefano Malvolti, Paul M Kaye, Sake J de Vlas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Indian; Azar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008468; https://doaj.org/article/f740272ecf9945599e37cad48494fc83

Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) vaccines are currently under development and there is a need to understand their potential impact on population wide VL incidence. We implement four characteristics from different human VL vaccine candidates into two published VL transmission model variants to estim...