Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: a decade old story

Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: a decade old story

<p>Visceral leishmaniasis is a vector-borne protozoan disease targeted for elimination from the Indian subcontinent by year 2020. Sri Lanka is a new focus of human leishmaniasis caused by a genetically distinct variant of <em>Leishmania donovani</em>, which is the species more wide...

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Main Authors:	HVYD Siriwardana, PH Chandrawansa, G Sirimanna, ND Karunaweera
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology 2012-08-01
Series:	Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:	leishmaniasis sri lanka skin lesions l. donovani
Online Access:	https://sljid.sljol.info/articles/4420

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