Effect of insecticide-treated bed nets on visceral leishmaniasis incidence in Bangladesh. A retrospective cohort analysis

• Rajib Chowdhury ,

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

  * E-mail: rajib478@yahoo.com

  Affiliations International Center for Diarrhoea Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Bangladesh, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8128-9832

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• Vashkar Chowdhury,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Dhaka College, Bangladesh

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• Shyla Faria,

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

  Affiliation Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Mohakhali, Bangladesh

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• Sakila Akter,

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

  Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

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• Aditya Prasad Dash,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central University of Tamil Nadu, India

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• Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kothari Medical Centre, West Bengal, India

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• Narayan Prosad Maheswary,

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

  Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

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• Caryn Bern,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco California, United States of America

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• Shireen Akhter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

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• Jorge Alvar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Axel Kroeger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, University of Freiburg, Centre for Medicine and Society/Anthropology, Freiburg, Germany

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• Marleen Boelaert,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

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• Qamar Banu

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

  Affiliation Asian University for Women, Chittatong, Bangladesh

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