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Please let me know more about Kala Azar disease details updated by National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP)?

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The Kala-azar is a slow progressing indigenous disease caused by a protozoan parasite of genus Leishmania which primary infects reticuloendothelial system and may be found in abundance in bone marrow, spleen and liver.

Symptoms and Signs
Recurrent fever intermittent or remittent with often double rise loss of appetite, pallor and weight loss with progressive emaciation weakness

Splenomegaly - spleen enlarges rapidly to massive enlargement, usually soft and nontender

Liver - enlargement not to the extent of spleen, soft, smooth surface, sharp edge

Lymphadenopathy - not very common in India

Skin - dry, thin and scaly and hair may be lost. Light coloured persons show grayish discolouration of the skin of hands, feet, abdomen and face which gives the Indian name Kala-azar meaning "Black fever"

Anaemia - develops rapidly

Diagnosed process of Kala Azar
Differential Diagnosis:
Typhoid
Miliary tuberculosis
Malaria
Brucellosis
Amoebic liver abscess
Infectious mononucleosis
Lymphoma, Leukemia
Tropical splenomegaly
Portal hypertension

Diagnosed process of Kala Azar



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