Psycho-social impacts, experiences and perspectives of patients with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis regarding treatment options and case management: An exploratory qualitative study in Tunisia

• Aicha Boukthir,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3903-2141

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• Jihene Bettaieb,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0056-452X

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• Astrid C. Erber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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

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• Hind Bouguerra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Observatoire National des Maladies Nouvelles et Emergentes, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Rym Mallekh,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6645-5089

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• Ikbel Naouar,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Adel Gharbi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Manal Alghamdi,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

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• Emma Plugge,

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

  Affiliation UK Collaborating Centre for the WHO Health in Prisons Programme, Public Health England, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Piero Olliaro,

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

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Special Program for Research & Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Afif Ben Salah

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: afif.bensalah@pasteur.tn

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LR11IPT02), Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

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