An outbreak of Leishmania major from an endemic to a non-endemic region posed a public health threat in Iraq from 2014-2017: Epidemiological, molecular and phylogenetic studies

• Mariwan M. M. Al-Bajalan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariwan M. M. Al-Bajalan, Sirwan M. A. Al-Jaf, Sherko S. Niranji

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

  * E-mail: mariwan@garmian.edu.krd

  Affiliation Department of Biology- College of Education and Research Centre, University of Garmian, Kalar- Sulaimaniyah, Iraq

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-6140

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• Sirwan M. A. Al-Jaf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariwan M. M. Al-Bajalan, Sirwan M. A. Al-Jaf, Sherko S. Niranji

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology- College of Education and Research Centre, University of Garmian, Kalar- Sulaimaniyah, Iraq

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• Sherko S. Niranji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariwan M. M. Al-Bajalan, Sirwan M. A. Al-Jaf, Sherko S. Niranji

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology- College of Education and Research Centre, University of Garmian, Kalar- Sulaimaniyah, Iraq

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• Dler R. Abdulkareem ,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  ¶‡ DRA and KKA-K also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kalar General Hospital, Kalar- Sulaimaniyah, Iraq

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• Khudhair K. Al-Kayali ,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  ¶‡ DRA and KKA-K also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliations Department of Dermatology, Kalar General Hospital, Kalar- Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Department of Dermatology- College of Medicine, University of Diyala, Baquba- Diyala, Iraq

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• Hirotomo Kato

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

  Affiliation Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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