Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis amongst militia members in a non-endemic district under conflict in the lowlands of Somali Region caused by Leishmania tropica, Eastern Ethiopia

• Adugna Abera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Adugna Abera, Henok Tadesse

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

  * E-mail: adugnabe@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbial Sciences and Genetics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-8113

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• Henok Tadesse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Adugna Abera, Henok Tadesse

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

  Affiliation Center for Public Health Emergency Management, Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Dereje Beyene,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Sciences and Genetics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Desalegn Geleta,

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

  Affiliation Center for Public Health Emergency Management, Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Mahlet Belachew,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Ebise Abose Djirata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Public Health Emergency Management, Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Solomon Kinde,

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

  Affiliation Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Hailemariam Difabachew,

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

  Affiliation Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tesfahun Bishaw,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Mussie Abdosh Hassen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Disease Prevention and Control Directorate, Somali Regional Health Bureau, Jigjiga, Ethiopia

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• Abdulahi Gire,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia

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• Tariku Mulatu Bore,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia

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• Binyam Mohammedbirhan Berhe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia

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• Medhanye Habtetsion,

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

  Affiliation Center for Public Health Emergency Management, Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Zalalam Olani Tugga,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Public Health Emergency Management, Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Endawoke Eyelachew,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Public Health Emergency Management, Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Worku Birhanu Sefer,

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

  Affiliation Animal Health Institute, Sebeta, Ethiopia

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• Kaoutar Choukri,

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

  Affiliation Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jasmine Coppens,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Reference Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Gemechu Tadese,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Kebron Haile,

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

  Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Henock Bekele,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Zeyede Kebede,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Gert van der Auwera,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Fikre Seife,

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

  Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Melkamu Abte,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Getachew Tollera,

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

  Affiliation Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Mesay Hailu,

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

  Affiliation Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Jean-Claude Dujardin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Johan van Griensven,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Dawit Wolday,

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

  Affiliations Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research (IIDR), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Center (MIRC), Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Wendemagegn Embiale,

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

  Affiliations Department of Dermato-venereology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Collaborative Research and Training Center for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Myrthe Pareyn ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are co-senior authors.

  Affiliation Unit of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Geremew Tasew

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

  ¶‡ These authors are co-senior authors.

  Affiliation Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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