Visceral leishmaniasis outbreak in Kenya-a setback to the elimination efforts

New Microbes New Infect. 2022 Nov 29:49-50:101060. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2022.101060. eCollection 2022 Nov-Dec.

Abhishek Mewara¹, Rajendra Gudisa¹, Bijaya Kumar Padhi², Pawan Kumar², Ranjit Sah^{3

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¹ Department of Medical Parasitology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India.
² Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India.
³ Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ D.Y Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
⁶ Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁷ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁸ Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

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Keywords: East Africa; Kala-azar; Kenya; Neglected tropical disease; Outbreak; Visceral leishmaniasis.