‘We do not rush to the hospital for ordinary wounds (suḷu tuvāla)’: A qualitative study on the early clinical manifestations of cutaneous leishmaniasis and associated health behaviours in rural Sri Lanka

• Sonali Dinushika Gunasekara,

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

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• Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe,

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

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

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• Suneth Buddhika Agampodi ,

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

  * E-mail: suneth.agampodi@yale.edu

  Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-1774

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• Manoj Sanjeewa Fernando,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

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• Kosala Gayan Weerakoon,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

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• Chandani Liyanage,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Lisa Dikomitis ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

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• Thilini Chanchala Agampodi

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

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