Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: Surmounting obstacles toward achieving elimination as a public health problem by 2028

Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: Surmounting obstacles toward achieving elimination as a public health problem by 2028

In the 1990s, Sri Lanka started reporting cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), which gradually increased to the current case incidence rate of over 3000/year. The causative strain of CL is Leishmania donovani MON-37, which is genetically different from the visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-causing strai...

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Main Authors: Shalindra Ranasinghe, Deepika Fernando, Nayana Gunathilaka, Kanchana Mallawaarachchi, Rajitha Wickremasinghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2025-06-01
Series:Annals of Medical Science and Research
Subjects:
elimination
history
leishmaniasis
public health problem
sri lanka
Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/amsr.amsr_36_24
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