Visceral leishmaniasis: Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and drivers underlying the hotspots in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

• Caroline A. Bulstra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline A. Bulstra, Epke A. Le Rutte, Paritosh Malaviya

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Epke A. Le Rutte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline A. Bulstra, Epke A. Le Rutte, Paritosh Malaviya

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: e.lerutte@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7450-543X

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• Paritosh Malaviya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline A. Bulstra, Epke A. Le Rutte, Paritosh Malaviya

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Epco C. Hasker,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Luc E. Coffeng,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4425-2264

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• Albert Picado,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Om Prakash Singh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Marleen C. Boelaert,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Sake J. de Vlas ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SJdV and SS also contribute equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Shyam Sundar

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SJdV and SS also contribute equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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