Fifty years of struggle to control cutaneous leishmaniasis in the highest endemic county in Iran: A longitudinal observation inferred with interrupted time series model

• Mohammadreza Aflatoonian,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Iraj Sharifi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iraj.sharifi@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6894-6834

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• Behnaz Aflatoonian,

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

  Affiliation Research Center for Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Ehsan Salarkia,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Ahmad Khosravi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Razieh Tavakoli Oliaee,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-0437

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• Mehdi Bamorovat,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Abbas Aghaei Afshar,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Zahra Babaei,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Fatemeh Sharifi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center for Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Moslem Taheri Soodejani,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Mohammad Reza Shirzadi,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Mehdi Gouya,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

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• Abolhassan Nadim,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Hamid Sharifi

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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