Knowledge, attitude, and prevention practices of cutaneous leishmaniasis in highly-endemic rural areas of Kandahar province, Afghanistan: A large cross-sectional community-based study

• Bilal Ahmad Rahimi ,

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

  * E-mail: drbilal77@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Faculty of Medicine, Afghan International Islamic University, Kabul, Afghanistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6630-5742

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• Sharafuddin Resha,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Mohammadullah Khaksar,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Afghanistan National Public Health Institute, Ministry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Hashmatullah Osmani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Abdul Baqi Daqiq,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Habiburahman Rahmani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Education and Training, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Hikmatullah Saleem,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Walter R. Taylor

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

  Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Clinical Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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