Investments in Research and Surveillance Are Needed to Go Beyond Elimination and Stop Transmission of Leishmania in the Indian Subcontinent

Piero L Olliaro; Tushar A K M Shamsuzzaman; Baburam Marasini; A C Dhariwal; Ahmed Be-Nazir; Dinesh Mondal; Megha Raj Banjara; Pradeep Das; Shyam Sundar; Suman Rijal; Byron Arana; Jorge Alvar; Daniel Argaw; Rosanna W Peeling; Axel Kroeger; Greg Matlashewski

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005190

Investments in Research and Surveillance Are Needed to Go Beyond Elimination and Stop Transmission of Leishmania in the Indian Subcontinent

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jan 26;11(1):e0005190. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005190. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Authors

Piero L Olliaro^{1

2}, Tushar A K M Shamsuzzaman³, Baburam Marasini⁴, A C Dhariwal⁵, Ahmed Be-Nazir⁶, Dinesh Mondal⁷, Megha Raj Banjara⁸, Pradeep Das⁹, Shyam Sundar¹⁰, Suman Rijal¹¹, Byron Arana¹², Jorge Alvar¹², Daniel Argaw¹³, Rosanna W Peeling¹⁴, Axel Kroeger^{1

15}, Greg Matlashewski¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research & Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland.
² Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, New Delhi, India.
⁶ National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Ministry of Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁷ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁸ Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁹ Rajendra Memorial Research Institute (RMRI)-ICMR, Patna, India.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
¹¹ Drugs for neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) Regional Office, New Delhi, India.
¹² Drugs for neglected Diseases initiative DNDi, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹³ Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁴ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ Centre for Medicine and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

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MeSH terms

Antiprotozoal Agents / therapeutic use*
Biomedical Research / economics*
Disease Reservoirs
Endemic Diseases
Humans
India / epidemiology
Leishmania
Leishmaniasis / drug therapy
Leishmaniasis / epidemiology
Leishmaniasis / parasitology*
Leishmaniasis / prevention & control*
Leishmaniasis Vaccines / immunology
Leishmaniasis, Visceral / drug therapy
Leishmaniasis, Visceral / epidemiology
Leishmaniasis, Visceral / prevention & control
Population Surveillance*

Substances

Antiprotozoal Agents
Leishmaniasis Vaccines

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International