Male predominance in reported Visceral Leishmaniasis cases: Nature or nurture? A comparison of population-based with health facility-reported data

• Kristien Cloots ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kristien Cloots, Sakib Burza

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kcloots@itg.be

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4789-7954

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• Sakib Burza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kristien Cloots, Sakib Burza

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India

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• Paritosh Malaviya,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Epco Hasker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

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

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• Sangeeta Kansal,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Guy Mollett,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Jaya Chakravarty,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Nurpur Roy,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

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• Bibek Kumar Lal,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Suman Rijal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, New Delhi, India

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• Shyam Sundar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Marleen Boelaert

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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