Premature deaths by visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil investigated through a cohort study: A challenging opportunity?

• Ana Nilce S. Maia-Elkhoury ,

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

  * E-mail: aelkhoury@paho.org

  Affiliation Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health (CDE), Neglected, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases (VT), Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5369-5860

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• Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasilia (UNB) Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Samantha Y. O. B. Valadas,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health (CDE), Neglected, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases (VT), Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Marcia L. Sousa-Gomes,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Secretary of Health Surveillance (SVS), Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Infectology Emilio Ribas and Institute of Tropical Medicine from University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Elisa Cupolillo,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC) Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3250

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• Jose Antonio Ruiz-Postigo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Daniel Argaw,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Manuel J. Sanchez-Vazquez

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pan-American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center–PANAFTOSA/PAHO, Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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