Current Visceral Leishmaniasis Research: A Research Review to Inspire Future Study

Table 1

Current VL control strategies and corresponding deficiencies.

Strategy	Category	Deficiency	Reference
Early detection	Human control	Doesn’t affect the parasite transmission	[10]
Culling dogs	Dog control	Opposition of dog owners & Hard to detect infected dogs	[7, 10]
Dog treatments	Dog control	Expensive	[9]
Canine vaccination	Dog control	Expensive & Drug resistant	[9]
Spraying insecticide	Vector control	Expensive & Drug resistant	[8, 21]
Immunological screening of seropositive dogs	Dog control	Expensive & Needs high level technique support	[9, 10]
Insecticide collars	Dog control	Expensive & May not work in large community	[22]
Insecticide-treated nets	Vector control	Damaged and untreated nets have low effectiveness	[23]
Ecological control	Vector control	Needs more time to be applied in the real world	[24]
Vaccination control	Human control	Not available at the current time	[25]