About the Authors

Mohammadreza Aflatoonian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Iraj Sharifi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

iraj.sharifi@yahoo.com

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Behnaz Aflatoonian

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Ehsan Salarkia

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Ahmad Khosravi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Razieh Tavakoli Oliaee

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Mehdi Bamorovat

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Abbas Aghaei Afshar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Zahra Babaei

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Fatemeh Sharifi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Moslem Taheri Soodejani

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

Mohammad Reza Shirzadi

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Mehdi Gouya

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Abolhassan Nadim

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hamid Sharifi

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.