Visceral leishmaniasis in the hills of western Nepal: A transmission assessment

• Surendra Uranw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Surendra Uranw, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Kristien Cloots, Lalita Roy

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

  * E-mail: surendra.uranw@bpkihs.edu

  ¶‡ SU and NRB are co-first authors to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1471-8318

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• Narayan Raj Bhattarai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Surendra Uranw, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Kristien Cloots, Lalita Roy

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

  ¶‡ SU and NRB are co-first authors to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Kristien Cloots ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Surendra Uranw, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Kristien Cloots, Lalita Roy

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4789-7954

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• Lalita Roy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Surendra Uranw, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Kristien Cloots, Lalita Roy

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

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Tropical & Infectious Diseases Center, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2131-1364

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• Keshav Rai,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Usha Kiran,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Uttam Raj Pyakurel,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Department of Health Services, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Bibek Kumar Lal,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Department of Health Services, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Sakib Burza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Infectious Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Suman Rijal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, India Office, New Delhi, India

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• Prahlad Karki,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Basudha Khanal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Epco Hasker

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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