Less is more: Developing an approach for assessing clustering at the lower administrative boundaries that increases the yield of active screening for leprosy in Bihar, India

• Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez ,

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

  * E-mail: Nimer.OrtunoGutierrez@damiaanactie.be

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Damien Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4209-0927

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• Pin-Wei Shih ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation University Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Aashish Wagh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Damien Foundation India Trust, Bihar, India

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• Shivakumar Mugudalabetta,

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

  Affiliation Damien Foundation India Trust, Bihar, India

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• Bijoy Pandey,

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

  Affiliation State Leprosy Eradication Programme, Bihar, India

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• Bouke C. de Jong,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jan Hendrik Richardus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Epco Hasker

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

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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