1st Edition
Visceral Leishmaniasis and Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Pathogenesis, Treatment and Disease Control
Preface
Acknowledgements
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 General Introduction to Visceral Leishmaniasis
Pinki Kumari, Sonali Vedika, and Ashish Kumar
Chapter 2 Geographical Distribution of VL and PKDL in India
Ravi Ranjan, Shobha Kumari, and Ashish Kumar
Chapter 3 Visceral Leishmaniasis as a Public Health Problem in India: Action Toward its Elimination
Sakshi Singh, Veer Singh, and Kumar Abhishek
Chapter 4 Pathogenesis of Visceral Leishmaniasis
Vikash Kumar, Divya Prasad, Ghufran Ahmed, and Ashish Kumar
Chapter 5 A Current Scenario of Drug Discovery Against Visceral Leishmaniasis
Kamal Singh, Bhavani R., and Swati Sharma
Chapter 6 Major Challenges in Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatment
Rishikesh Kumar and Krishna Pandey
Chapter 7 Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Development from Visceral Leishmaniasis
Ghufran Ahmed, Veer Singh, Dayakar Alti, Sonali Vedika, and Ashish Kumar
Chapter 8 Symptoms and Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis and Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis
Priyanka Yadav, Kusum Yadav, Gyanendra Tripathi, and Pratibha Tiwari
Chapter 9 Molecular Mechanism of PKDL Development
Shobha Kumari, Pradeep Das, and Ashish Kumar
Chapter 10 Immunopathogenesis of Visceral Leishmaniasis and Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis
Dayakar Alti, Vikash Kumar, and Ashish Kumar
Chapter 11 A Recent Update on Visceral Leishmaniasis and Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatments
Saurav Kumar Mishra and John J. Georrge
Chapter 12 Review of Existing Control Measures for VL and PKDL: Innovative Approaches to Vector Control, Case Management, Vaccine Development, and Community Education
Prashant Saxena, Madhvi Saxena, Anukrti Mishra, and Balashankar K.
Chapter 13 Public Health Implications and Challenges of VL and PKDL
Ritesh Kumar Tiwari, Gaurav Kumar Pandit, and Meenakshi Singh
Chapter 14 Role of Environmental Factors on the Development of PKDL
Moti Lal, Neelam, and Himanshu Gaur
Chapter 15 Arsenic and Antimony Toxicity in Drinking Water and Their Roles in the Development of PKDL
Manisha Verma, Mahesh S. Chivate, Vishal Singh, and Vishal Mishra
Chapter 16 Government Policies toward Providing Safe Drinking Water to the Public
Priyanka Yadav, Kusum Yadav, Mayank Saxena, and Isha Singh
Chapter 17 Factors Influencing the Development of Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis
Himanshu N. Panchal, Divya J. Tandel, and Sapna Desai
Index
Biography
Dr. Veer Singh is currently working as Young Scientist (DHR) at the Department of Biochemistry, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India. He got PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. He has more than 40 publications and his area of work involved Environmental contamination & toxicity, the role of drinking water heavy metals contamination in visceral leishmaniasis (VL) & post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) development.
Dr. Ashish Kumar is currently working as Scientist-C and Head of Department at the Department of Biochemistry, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, and Patna, India. He has published more than 40 publications in International/national journals. He has received several awards and received several funding (sponsored projects) from many national and international agencies. Currently, 4 doctoral and 2 postdoctoral students are working under the supervision of Dr. Ashish Kumar. Dr. Kumar is working in the interdisciplinary area of life science. His work is mainly focused on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). He is also working on VL and PKDL diagnosis, treatment and environmental impacts on disease development.
