Section outline

  • Lecture: Leishmaniasis

    Faculty:  Caryn Bern

    Location:  Mission Hall 1106

    • Required Reading:

    • Jeronimo SMB, de Queiroz Sousa A, Pearson RD. Leishmaniasis. In: Guerrant RL, Walker DH, Weller PF, eds. Tropical infectious diseases: principles, pathogens and practice. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2011:696-706. File
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    • Bern C, Courtenay O, Alvar J. Of cattle, sand flies and men: a systematic review of risk factor analyses for South Asian visceral leishmaniasis and implications for elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2010 Feb 9;4(2):e599. File
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    • Picado A, Singh SP, Rijal S, et al. Longlasting insecticidal nets for prevention of Leishmania donovani infection in India and Nepal: paired cluster randomised trial. BMJ 2010;341:c6760. File
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    • Mondal D, Huda MM, Karmoker MK, et al. Reducing visceral leishmaniasis by insecticide impregnation of bed-nets, Bangladesh. Emerg Infect Dis 2013;19:1131-4. File
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    • Chowdhury R, Huda MM, Kumar V, et al. The Indian and Nepalese programmes of indoor residual spraying for the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis: performance and effectiveness. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 2011;105:31-5. File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Alvar J, Velez ID, Bern C, et al. Leishmaniasis worldwide and global estimates of its incidence. PloS one 2012;7:e35671. File
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    • Alvar J, Yactayo S, Bern C. Leishmaniasis and poverty. Trends Parasitol 2006;22:552-7. File
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    • World Health Organization. Control of the leishmaniases. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 2010: 1-186. File
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