Prolonged delays in leprosy case detection in a leprosy hot spot setting in Eastern Ethiopia

• Kedir Urgesa,

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

  Affiliation Haramaya University, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Harar, Ethiopia

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• Naomi D. de Bruijne,

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

  Affiliations Athena Institute, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University), Amsterdam, Netherlands, NLR, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• Kidist Bobosha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Berhanu Seyoum,

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

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Adane Mihret,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Biftu Geda,

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

  Affiliation College of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Nursing, Meda Walebu University, Shashamane, Ethiopia

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• Anne Schoenmakers ,

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

  * E-mail: a.schoenmakers@nlrinternational.org

  Affiliations NLR, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3040-7883

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• Liesbeth Mieras,

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

  Affiliation NLR, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• Robin van Wijk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations NLR, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Christa Kasang,

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

  Affiliation Deutsche Lepra- und Tuberkulosehilfe e.V. (DAHW), Wurzburg, Germany

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• Mirgissa Kaba,

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

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Abraham Aseffa

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

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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