Involving patients in drug development for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): A qualitative study exploring and incorporating preferences of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis into Target Product Profile development

• María del Mar Castro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: María del Mar Castro, Astrid C. Erber

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

  Affiliations Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento de Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Center of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; German Center of Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0485-2919

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• Astrid C. Erber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: María del Mar Castro, Astrid C. Erber

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

  * E-mail: astrid.erber@meduniwien.ac.at

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5252-9676

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• Byron Arana,

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

  Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Gláucia Cota,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto René Rachou (IRR), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Claudia M. Denkinger,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Center of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; German Center of Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg

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• Nicole Harrison,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

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• Julia Kutyi,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

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• Liliana López-Carvajal,

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

  Affiliation Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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• Emma Plugge,

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

  Affiliation Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Julia Walochnik,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Piero Olliaro

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

  Affiliation International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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