NDLI: Sero-prevalence of kala-azar and its clinical presentations in a rural community of Bangladesh

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Sero-prevalence of kala-azar and its clinical presentations in a rural community of Bangladesh

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Aba, Mamoon Jahan, Khurshid Begum, Nasima Ma, Masum
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	This was a descriptive type of cross sectional study carried out among the people in a selected village (Lahiripara) of Fulbaria upazila under Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. The study area was endemic for kala-azar. The objective of the study was to find out the sero-prevalence of kala-azar and its clinical presentations. Total 218 respondents were studied from 46 households. All the members of the households were interviewed and their blood samples were taken to find out the sero-prevalence by using ELISA test. In the study 12.4% of the respondents were sero-positive for kala-azar, which consisted of present kala-azar and past kala-azar cases. The highest percentage (40.7%) of them were in the age group of < 10 years and male and female ratio was 1.7:1. In addition, clinical examinations were done among the suspected febrile cases to find out the clinical presentations. During the study 17 febrile patients were found, among them 47.0% were serologically positive. Out of 8 present kala-azar cases, 50.0% and 37.5% had palpable spleen and liver respectively. The other important symptoms and signs of patients showed that 62.5% mildly, 37.5% moderately anaemic and 62.5% were moderately emaciated. Furthermore, 87.5% had clean tongue and normal appetite each. Besides, 37.5% had cough, 25.0% loose motion, 12.5% Jaundice and none of them had epistaxis, gum bleeding and palpable lymph nodes. Serological findings of the study area indicated that there might be an increasing trend of kala-azar in the country.
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.orion-group.net/medicaljournal/pdf/193.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Central Library (ISO-9001:2015 Certified)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India | PIN - 721302

See location in the Map
03222 282435
Mail: support@ndl.gov.in

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in