About the Authors
- Paul R. Torgerson
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Affiliation Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- José E. Hagan
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Affiliations Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Federico Costa
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Affiliations Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil
- Juan Calcagno
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Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Michael Kane
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Affiliation Center for Analytical Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Martha S. Martinez-Silveira
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Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Marga G. A. Goris
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Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Leptospirosis Reference Center, Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Claudia Stein
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Affiliation Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation (DIR), World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Albert I. Ko
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Affiliations Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Bernadette Abela-Ridder
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* E-mail: abelab@who.int
Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Genève, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors either served as members of the World Health Organization advisory body—the Leptospirosis Burden Epidemiology Reference Group or acted as advisors to LERG—without remuneration. The authors declare no other competing interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PRT JEH FC JC MK MSMS MGAG CS AIK BAR. Performed the experiments: PRT JEH FC JC MK MSMS MGAG CS AIK BAR. Analyzed the data: PRT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PRT JEH FC JC MK MSMS MGAG CS AIK BAR. Wrote the paper: PRT JEH FC JC MK MSMS MGAG CS AIK BAR.