Visceral Leishmaniasis Caused by <i>Leishmania donovani</i> Zymodeme MON-37, Western Ghats, India
Prasanta Saini, N. Pradeep Kumar, P M Ajithlal, Aswathy Joji, Kumar Rajesh, K J Reena, Ashwani Kumar
Abstract
During 2015-2019, we recorded 10 patients with indigenous cases of visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani in Western Ghats, a region in India to which visceral leishmaniasis is not endemic. The parasite involved in 4 of these infections was of the MON-37 zymodeme strain, which normally causes cutaneous leishmaniasis in this region.
Topics & Concepts
Visceral leishmaniasisLeishmania donovaniLeishmaniasisLeishmaniaParasite hostingIndigenousBiologyMedicineImmunologyEcologyComputer scienceWorld Wide WebResearch on Leishmaniasis StudiesTrypanosoma species research and implications