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Survey of domestic cattle for anti-Leishmania antibodies and LeishmaniaDNA in a visceral leishmaniasis endemic area of Bangladesh

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Veterinary Research, June 2011
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Title
Survey of domestic cattle for anti-Leishmania antibodies and LeishmaniaDNA in a visceral leishmaniasis endemic area of Bangladesh
Published in
BMC Veterinary Research, June 2011
DOI 10.1186/1746-6148-7-27
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Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Debashis Ghosh, Md Gulam Musawwir Khan, Mohammad Faizul Islam, Dinesh Mondal, Makoto Itoh, Md Nurul Islam, Rashidul Haque

Abstract

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), caused by an intracellular parasite Leishmania donovani in the Indian subcontinent, is considered to be anthroponotic. The role of domestic animals in its transmission is still unclear. Although cattle are the preferred blood host for Phlebotomus argentipes, the sandfly vector of VL in the Indian subcontinent, very little information is available for their role in the disease transmission. In this study, we examined domestic cattle for serological and molecular evidence of Leishmania infection in a VL-endemic area in Bangladesh. Blood samples from 138 domestic cattle were collected from houses with active or recently-treated VL and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis patients. The presence of anti-leishmanial antibodies in serum was investigated using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and then with direct agglutination tests (DAT). Nested PCR (Ln PCR) was performed to amplify the ssu-rRNA gene using the DNA extracted from Buffy coat. Recently-developed molecular assay loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) was also performed for further sensitive detection of parasite DNA.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sri Lanka 1 1%
Bangladesh 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 91 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 25%
Student > Master 13 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 19 20%
Unknown 13 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 32 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 7%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 4%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 18 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2016.
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#7,778,730
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Veterinary Research
#560
of 3,298 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,090
of 124,491 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#5
of 12 outputs
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