Pilot study to assess the impact of feed-through insecticide on the sand fly density in an endemic area of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Morocco

• Wim Van Bortel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wvanbortel@itg.be

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Unit Entomology, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Outbreak Research Team, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6644-518X

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• Raja Benkirane,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National School of Public Health (Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique) Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

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• Ayoub Hmidane,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Establishment Network Service, Delegation of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Zagora, Morocco

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• Temmy Sunyoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Unit of Mycobacterial Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium, Luxembourg Operational Research and Epidemiology Support Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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• Richard Poché,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genesis Laboratories, Inc., Wellington, Colorado, United States of America

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• David Poché,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genesis Laboratories, Inc., Wellington, Colorado, United States of America

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• Chafika Faraj,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco

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• Zoë Dierickx,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Unit Entomology, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Rik Hendrickx,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH), Infla-Med Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp: Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Tom Smekens,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Guy Caljon,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH), Infla-Med Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp: Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Epco Hasker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Unit of Mycobacterial Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Kristien Cloots

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Unit of Mycobacterial Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium

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