Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence

• Jorge Alvar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Alvar, Margriet den Boer

  * E-mail: alvarj@who.int

  Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Iván D. Vélez,

  Affiliations Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, PECET, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

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• Caryn Bern,

  Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, National Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Mercé Herrero,

  Affiliation Disease Prevention and Control Programmes, World Health Organization, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Philippe Desjeux,

  Affiliation Institute of OneWorldHealth, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Jorge Cano,

  Affiliation National Centre for Tropical Medicine and International Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Jean Jannin,

  Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Margriet den Boer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Alvar, Margriet den Boer

  Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• the WHO Leishmaniasis Control Team

  ¶For a full list of the members of the WHO Leishmaniasis Control Team please see the Acknowledgments section.

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