Clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis
What are the symptoms of VL? This step will take you through the commonly associated clinical manifestations of a VL infection in different settings.
Course: Control and Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis
Week 1 Acknowledgements
Many thanks from the course team. Lead Educators: Vanessa Yardley, Simon Croft Coordination: Markela Koniordou Course content production: Markela Koniordou, Vanessa Yardley Course production: Many people have been involved in …
Summary of Week 1
What have we learned? This week we have introduced the Leishmania parasite and described the disease it can cause. The transmission and spread of VL were explained and the people …
Areas of intervention for VL control
Introducing the concepts and methods used for VL control All interventions that aim to have an impact on disease rely on a number of different activities and processes that can …
Why is it important to control VL?
Visceral leishmaniasis affects people at an individual level but also has a range of impacts at a population or national level[1]. In the following interview, Dr Vikas Aggarwal discusses some …
Risk factors and context
It is important to understand that an increase in VL cases is related to many things. VL is a disease that comes in “epidemic waves”. This is illustrated in the …
Who gets ill?
What factors can drive transmission or make people susceptible to getting infected with visceral leishmaniasis? The graph below summarises some of the risk factors that have been associated with higher …
Where is visceral leishmaniasis found and what is the burden of disease?
This step gives an overview of where VL is found with some associated publications that can provide more details on numbers of cases and a more comprehensive breakdown of incidence …
How is VL spread by its natural sand fly vectors and mammalian hosts?
Professor Paul Ready follows on from step 1.6 by looking at how the sand fly spreads infection amongst its mammalian host or hosts. The terms anthroponotic and zoonotic transmission will …
Learning with us
If this is your first course, please review ‘Using FutureLearn’ for an introduction to learning with FutureLearn. We are delighted that you’ve joined the course and wish you a warm …
How is visceral leishmaniasis transmitted?
Professor Paul Ready will focus on the transmission of Leishmania with an emphasis on the role of the sand fly vectors.
What is visceral leishmaniasis?
This step will describe what leishmaniasis is with reference to the parasite life cycle and the disease it can cause. Some commonly-used definitions will be explained. Note Definition of a …
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Control and Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis