Kala-azar in pregnancy in Mymensingh, Bangladesh: a social autopsy

Kazi Mizanur Rahman; Anna Olsen; David Harley; Colin D Butler; Dinesh Mondal; Stephen P Luby; Adrian C Sleigh

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002710

Kala-azar in pregnancy in Mymensingh, Bangladesh: a social autopsy

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 May 1;8(5):e2710. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002710. eCollection 2014 May.

Authors

Kazi Mizanur Rahman¹, Anna Olsen², David Harley³, Colin D Butler⁴, Dinesh Mondal⁵, Stephen P Luby⁶, Adrian C Sleigh³

Affiliations

¹ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
² Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
⁴ Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
⁵ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁶ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Bangladesh
Diagnostic Errors
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Leishmaniasis, Visceral / diagnosis*
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic / diagnosis*
Socioeconomic Factors
Stillbirth

Grants and funding

This study was funded by the Core Research Fund of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (www.icddrb.org) through its New Researcher Award mechanism. The first and communicating author of this manuscript, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, was the Principal Investigator of this study. The icddr,b protocol number of this study was 2008-045 and the icddr,b budget code for this study was 02121937. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.