| applicability of direct agglutination test (dat) at a rural health setting in bangladesh and feasibility of local antigen production. | as part of a large-scale sero-epidemiological survey on visceral leishmaniasis (vl) carried out in mymensingh district of bangladesh, applicability of dat was assessed at the level of a rural health setting in trishal (upazila) subdistrict. despite the relatively less optimal conditions encountered, 5854 inhabitants from 7 villages appendant to trishal were assessed for vl. the demographic distribution for sero-positivity obtained at the rural setting was comparable to that found by dat as execu ... | 1993 | 7802488 |