Risk of disability among adult leprosy cases and determinants of delay in diagnosis in five states of India: A case-control study

• Govindarajulu Srinivas ,

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

  * E-mail: drsrini@gmail.com

  Affiliation Professor & Head, Department of Epidemiology, The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0320-5485

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• Thirumugam Muthuvel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiologist, Global Data Research Center, Hyderabad, India

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• Vivek Lal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Director-Health, German Leprosy and TB Relief Association, Kolkata, India

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• Kanagasabapathy Vaikundanathan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rehabilitation Officer, Composite Regional Centre for Persons with Disabilities, Davanagere, India

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• Eva-Maria Schwienhorst-Stich,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Deutsche Lepra- und Tuberkulosehilfe e.V (DAHW) and Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany

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• Christa Kasang

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Consultant, Deutsche Lepra- und Tuberkulosehilfe e.V., Wuerzburg (DAHW), Germany

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