Kala-Azar: Oral Nano Medicine

Scientists from the Institute of Nano Science & Technology Mohali have developed an oral Nano medicine for Kala-Azar.
Kala- Azar is one of the most neglected tropical diseases.
The oral Nano medicine is manufactured with the help of surface-modified solid lipid nanoparticles based combinational cargo system for combating the disease.
The solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) can help enhance the oral uptake of the therapeutic agent by retaining a solubilized state of the drug in the Gastrointestinal Tract.
The oral therapeutics is expected to help in the control and its elimination.
Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar is a slow progressing Neglected Tropical Disease caused by a protozoan parasite of genus Leishmania.
It is a zoonotic infection transmitted by the sand fly, a blood-sucking pest, found in moist (humid) mud and sand and close to livestock.
The parasite primarily infects the reticuloendothelial system and may be found in abundance in bone marrow, spleen and liver.
It is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after Malaria.