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Impact of IRS: Four-years of entomological surveillance of the Indian Visceral Leishmaniases elimina...

Impact of IRS: Four-years of entomological surveillance of the Indian Visceral Leishmaniases elimina...

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Impact of IRS: Four-years of entomological surveillance of the Indian Visceral Leishmaniases elimination programme

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Impact of IRS: Four-years of entomological surveillance of the Indian Visceral Leishmaniases elimination programme

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San Francisco: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2021-08, Vol.15 (8), p.e0009101-e0009101

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English

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San Francisco: Public Library of Science

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Contents

Background In 2005, Bangladesh, India and Nepal agreed to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as a public health problem. The approach to this was through improved case detection and treatment, and controlling transmission by the sand fly vector Phlebotomus argentipes, with indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticide. Initially, India applied D...

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Impact of IRS: Four-years of entomological surveillance of the Indian Visceral Leishmaniases elimination programme

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_2573455630

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_2573455630

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ISSN

1935-2735,1935-2727

E-ISSN

1935-2735

DOI

10.1371/journal.pntd.0009101

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