[Leish-l] Fwd: name

Sun Apr 25 15:55:41 BRT 2010

Dear colleages,
I  support the comments made by Dr Shyam Sunder Dr.Sunil Arora"and Anuradha t.In our country KA and VL are synonym ,like india and other parts of world but KA is more common.

best wishes
Dr.Mahnaz Banihashemi

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From: Kaliyaperumal Karunamoorthi <k_karunamoorthi at yahoo.com>
To: skarora_in at yahoo.com; anuradhadube at gmail.com; drshyamsundar at hotmail.com
Cc: Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br
Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 12:44:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Fwd: name

Dear colleagues, 
I am absolutely support the comments made by Dr Shyam Sunder Dr.Sunil Arora"and Anuradha that KA and VL are synonymous in India and other parts of the world. 
Very truly yours 
K. Karunamoorthi 

K. Karunamoorthi
M. Sc., M.Phil., D.P.H.M., 
Medical entomologist
Jimma University
Jimma, Ethiopia.
MOBILE: +251913547847; +919786956123

--- On Wed, 21/4/10, Dr.Sunil Arora <skarora_in at yahoo.com> wrote:

>From: Dr.Sunil Arora <skarora_in at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Fwd: name
>To: Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br, "Anuradha Dube" <anuradhadube at gmail.com>
>Date: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010, 2:53 PM
>
>
>I do endorse the comments of Dr Shyam Sunder and Anuradha that KA and VL are synonymous in India and elsewhere
>
>dunil aroraemail: skarora_in at yahoo.com
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>--- On Tue, 4/20/10, Anuradha Dube <anuradhadube at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>From: Anuradha Dube <anuradhadube at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Fwd: name
>>To: Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br
>>Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 8:07 AM
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>>I fully agree with Dr Shyam Sundar's view that VL and Kala azar are synonymous. Elaborately, to my understanding, VL is classified on the basis of Leishmania strains as below: 
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>>Leishmania donovani donovani ( LDd), commonly known as Kala-azar in India and Sudan (Africa) as Anthroponotic  VL. A further manifestation in the form ofPost Kala-azar Dermal Leishmanoid (PKDL) occurs in humans inIndia and Sudan (only?) is due to this strain only (LDd)
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>>Leishmania donovani chagasi ( LDc) commonly known as calaazar in South America (Brazil) and  Leishmania donovani infantum (LDi) commonly known as Mediterranean VL in Mediterranean, as Zoonotic VL (with dog as reservoir). 
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>>Anuradha
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>>On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Shyam Sundar <drshyamsundar at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>It will be impossible erase kala-azar from leishmaniasis, you might try and restrict it to anthroponotic VL. It originated from the deadly black fever without treatment. Now also you do see occasional blackish discoloration. For most of us, VL and kala-azar us synonymous.
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>>>From: Carlos Costa 
>>>Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:54 AM
>>>To: Leish-L 
>>>Subject: [Leish-l] Fwd: name
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>>>From: Ashford, R <ashford at liverpool.ac.uk>
>>>Date: 2010/4/6
>>>Subject: RE: [Leish-l] name
>>>To: Carlos Costa <chncosta at gmail.com>
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>>>'Visceral leishmaniasis' is correct for all versions.  Personally I much prefer to restrict 'kala azar' to the anthroponotic disease in the Indian subcontinent.  The epidemiology is so different from that of L. infantum infection that they deserve different names. The disease in East Africa is a problem!  
>>> 
>>>A serious constraint in advocacy of leish, one of the many reasons why malaria is so much better known, is the confusion over the names and the unfamiliarity of both 'leishmaniasis' and 'kala azar' in the public consciousness.  Neither leish nor k-a is a household name.
>>> 
>>>This doesn't answer your question and, fortunately, we have no 'Academy' of the English language, so there is no definitive answer.  All versions are 'correct' if they are routinely used, which means they have to be explained and defined whenever they are used.
>>> 
>>>By the way, I believe the 'kala', which means 'black' (same root as 'coal') refers not to skin colour, but to the seriousness of epidemics, as with 'black death' for whatever disease(s) (bubonic plague?) killed so many people at that time.
>>> 
>>>Regards,
>>> 
>>>Dick Ashford
>>> 
>>>Consultant Biologist
>>>Richard W. Ashford DSc
>>>142 Meols Parade
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>>>UK
>>>Tel +44 (0)151 632 2714
>>>
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From: leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br [leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] On Behalf Of Carlos Costa [chncosta at gmail.com]
>>>Sent: 23 March 2010 23:02
>>>To: Leish-L
>>>Subject: [Leish-l] name
>>>
>>>
>>>Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar? Which, when, how? 
>>>
>>>Carlos.
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.
>>>Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
>>>Universidade Federal do Piauí
>>>Brazil
>>>Telephone: +55 86 3221-3413
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.
>>>Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
>>>Universidade Federal do Piauí
>>>Brazil
>>>Telephone: +55 86 3221-3413
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