The Republic of San Seriffe



Report to President

The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of VL in the San Seriffe and to identify the animal reservoir hosts of the disease for implementation of control program and report to the President of the island. The distribution of geographical regions show that cumulatively 40% of respondents were covered from the middle and Maughold regions of San Seriffe, 100000 respondents have participated in this survey. The report provides the recommendation to control VL; by eliminating the stray dogs, identifying suspected human cases and ownership dogs by periodic DAT and treatment of infected cases. The early detection can reduce damage that can be caused by the visceral leishmaniasis.

Rationale

Objective

Mehthodology

Data Collection

Data analysis

Statistical Analysis

Findings

Conclusion and Recommendation

Executive Summary

The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of VL in the San Seriffe and to identify the animal reservoir hosts of the disease for implementation of control program and report to the President of the island. The distribution of geographical regions show that cumulatively 40% of respondents were covered from the middle and Maughold regions of San Seriffe, 100000 respondents have participated in this survey. Leishmaniasis is transmitted by the bite of female phlebotomine disease. The infective stage injected disease, traditional methods for blood meals. San Serriffe is a small country made up of several islands in the Indian Ocean near the island of Caspiar with a semicolon. DAT was used in this study for detection of L. infantum infection in human and dogs because for its highly specificity and sensitivity. Of the 1476 samples, 14 cases (0.95%) of human samples showed specific anti-Leishmania antibodies with titers = 1:3200 and 23 individuals (1.55%) showed titers between 1:800 and 1:1600 by DAT. About 2.46% of positive cases were detected in children of under 5 years old and 3.22% in children of between5-8 years ages. The report provides the recommendation to control VL; by eliminating the stray dogs, identifying suspected human cases and ownership dogs by periodic DAT and treatment of infected cases. The early detection can reduce damage that can be caused by the visceral leishmaniasis.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary2

Rationale4

Objective5

Mehthodology5

Study Area5

Data Collection6

Data analysis7

Statistical Analysis7

Findings8

Conclusion and Recommendation10

References12

The Republic of San Seriffe

Rationale

The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of VL in the San Seriffe and to identify the animal reservoir hosts of the disease for implementation of control program. Visceral leishmaniasis known as kala-azar in the Indian vernacular in human systemic disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania species. Transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes of the species apparently inoccuo Phlebotomus sp. Sandfly. The results in table shows that 30696 of the total are infected with the VL, which is quite high for such a low populational area.

Leishmaniasis caused by protozoan parasite of the Leishmania spp. transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies. VL is the most severe form of leishmaniasis in the world, which is responsible for an estimated 500,000 cases each year worldwide. Visceral leishmaniasis is caused by three different species ...