About the Authors

Mauricio Naoto Saheki

Contributed equally to this work with: Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Liliane de Fátima Antônio, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Armando de Oliveira Schubach

mauricio.saheki@ini.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra

Contributed equally to this work with: Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Liliane de Fátima Antônio, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco

Contributed equally to this work with: Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Liliane de Fátima Antônio, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Affiliations Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Liliane de Fátima Antônio

Contributed equally to this work with: Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Liliane de Fátima Antônio, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel

Contributed equally to this work with: Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Liliane de Fátima Antônio, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Mariza de Matos Salgueiro

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Érica de Camargo Ferreira e Vasconcellos

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Sonia Regina Lambert Passos

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Ginelza Peres Lima dos Santos

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Madelon Novato Ribeiro

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Aline Fagundes

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Maria de Fátima Madeira

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Eliame Mouta-Confort

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Mauro Célio de Almeida Marzochi

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Cláudia Maria Valete-Rosalino

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Contributed equally to this work with: Mauricio Naoto Saheki, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Liliane de Fátima Antônio, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Affiliation Laboratory for Leishmaniasis Surveillance, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SJBP MCAM CMVR AdOS. Data curation: MNS MRL SJBP LFA. Formal analysis: MNS MRL SJBP LFA. Funding acquisition: AF MdFM EMC MCAM CMVR AdOS. Investigation: MNS MRL SJBP LFA MIFP MMS EdCFeV SRLP GPLS MNR AF MdFM EMC MCAM CMVR AdOS. Methodology: MNS MRL SJBP LFA MIFP MMS EdCFeV SRLP GPLS MNR AF MdFM EMC MCAM CMVR AdOS. Project administration: SJBP MCAM CMVR AdOS. Resources: GPLS MNR AF MdFM EMC MCAM CMVR AdOS. Supervision: SJBP EMC MCAM CMVR AdOS. Writing – original draft: MNS MRL SJBP LFA. Writing – review & editing: MNS MRL SJBP LFA MIFP MMS EdCFeV SRLP GPLS MNR AF MdFM EMC MCAM CMVR AdOS.