TY - JOUR AU - Molina, Ricardo AU - Ghosh, Debashis AU - Carrillo, Eugenia AU - Monnerat, Séverine AU - Bern, Caryn AU - Mondal, Dinesh AU - Alvar, Jorge PY - 2017 DO - 10.1093/cid/cix245 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/13961 AB - We compared xenodiagnosis with quantitative polymerase chain reaction in skin biopsies from 3 patients with maculopapular or nodular post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). All patients infected sand flies. Parasite loads in skin varied from 1428... LA - eng PB - Oxford University Press KW - Control KW - Leishmaniasis KW - Post–kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis KW - Xenodiagnosis KW - Leishmania donovani KW - Leishmaniasis, Visceral KW - Adult KW - Animals KW - DNA, Protozoan KW - Female KW - Humans KW - India KW - Male KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Psychodidae KW - Skin KW - Xenodiagnosis KW - Young Adult TI - Infectivity of Post-Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Patients to Sand Flies: Revisiting a Proof of Concept in the Context of the Kala-azar Elimination Program in the Indian Subcontinent TY - journal article ER -