Transmission of Leishmania donovani in the Hills of Eastern Nepal, an Outbreak Investigation in Okhaldhunga and Bhojpur Districts

• Bart Ostyn ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bart Ostyn, Surendra Uranw

  * E-mail: bostyn@itg.be

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Heath, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Surendra Uranw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bart Ostyn, Surendra Uranw

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Narayan Raj Bhattarai,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Murari L. Das,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Keshav Rai,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Katrien Tersago,

  Affiliation Department of Public Heath, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Yubraj Pokhrel,

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Lies Durnez,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Baburam Marasini,

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Gert Van der Auwera,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jean-Claude Dujardin,

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Marc Coosemans,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Daniel Argaw,

  Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Marleen Boelaert,

  Affiliation Department of Public Heath, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Suman Rijal

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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