A prospective cohort study of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis due to Leishmania major: Dynamics of the Leishmanin skin test and its predictive value for protection against infection and disease

• Jihène Bettaieb ,

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

  * E-mail: bettaiebjihene@yahoo.fr (JB); afif.bensalah@pasteur.tn (ABS)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0056-452X

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• Amine Toumi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Wissem Ghawar,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Sadok Chlif,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Mariem Nouira,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Nabil Belhaj-Hamida,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Adel Gharbi,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Nissaf Ben-Alaya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Observatoire National des Maladies Nouvelles et Emergentes, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Dhafer Laouini,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Hechmi Louzir,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Koussay Dellagi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: International Division, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Afif Ben Salah

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

  * E-mail: bettaiebjihene@yahoo.fr (JB); afif.bensalah@pasteur.tn (ABS)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6922-4625

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