Gouri Sankar Bhunia,Manas Ranjan Dikhit,Shreekant Kesari,Ganesh Chandra Sahoo,Pradeep Das Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR),Agamkuan,Patna,Bihar 800007,India.
Abstract:
Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar is a potent parasitic infection causing death of thousands of people each year. Medicinal compounds currently available for the treatment of kala-azar have serious side effects and decreased efficacy owing to the emergence of resistant strains. The type of immune reaction is also to be considered in patients infected with Leishmania donovani (L. donovani). For complete eradication of this disease, a high level modern research is currently being applied both at the molecul...