| visceral leishmaniasis in southern sudan. | reports made by médecins sans frontières in khartoum on an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis among displaced people from the western upper nile prompted an investigation at ler hospital, the second largest in the region. in a 10 d period during april 1989, 100 persons with visceral leishmaniasis were identified. of these, 82% were men; 67% were aged 20 to 39 years. except for the absence of ulcerated skin lesions, the clinical features corresponded to those traditionally described in the sudan. ... | 1991 | 2068759 |
| detection of antibodies to leishmania donovani in animals in a kala-azar endemic region in eastern sudan: a preliminary report. | the prevalence of antibodies against leishmania donovani in selected domestic and wild animal species in 2 villages in sudan with active l. donovani transmission in humans was investigated. screening of domestic animals (donkeys, cows, sheep, goats, camels and dogs) with the direct agglutination test (dat) detected reaction rates above the cut-off titres in donkeys (68.7%), cows (21.4%) and goats (8.5%), and which were also found in wild rats (5.5%). sera of sheep, camels and dogs had a weak agg ... | 2000 | 10748894 |
| incrimination of phlebotomus (larroussius) orientalis as a vector of visceral leishmaniasis in western upper nile province, southern sudan. | | 1992 | 1287918 |