Changing demographics of visceral leishmaniasis in northeast Brazil: Lessons for the future

• Iraci Duarte Lima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Health Graduate Program, Health Science Center; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; Natal, RN, Brazil, State of Rio Grande do Norte Health Secretariat; Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Adila L. M. Lima,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Graduate Program, Health Science Center; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; Natal, RN, Brazil, State of Rio Grande do Norte Health Secretariat; Natal, RN, Brazil, Center for Zoonosis Control, Natal Health Secretariat, Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Carolina de Oliveira Mendes-Aguiar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; Natal, RN, Brazil

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• José F. V. Coutinho,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Graduate Program, Health Science Center; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; Natal, RN, Brazil, Center for Zoonosis Control, Natal Health Secretariat, Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Mary E. Wilson,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Epidemiology, University of Iowa, and the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

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• Richard D. Pearson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

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• José Wilton Queiroz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: José Wilton Queiroz, Selma M. B. Jeronimo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Health Graduate Program, Health Science Center; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Science and Technology of Tropical Diseases, INCT-DT, Salvador, Brazil

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• Selma M. B. Jeronimo

  Contributed equally to this work with: José Wilton Queiroz, Selma M. B. Jeronimo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smbj@cb.ufrn.br

  Affiliations Health Graduate Program, Health Science Center; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; Natal, RN, Brazil, Institute of Science and Technology of Tropical Diseases, INCT-DT, Salvador, Brazil, Department of Biochemistry, Bioscience Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4784-9904

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