Journal article
Global distribution maps of the Leishmaniases
DM Pigott, S Bhatt, N Golding, KA Duda, KE Battle, OJ Brady, JP Messina, Y Balard, P Bastien, F Pratlong, JS Brownstein, CC Freifeld, SR Mekaru, PW Gething, DB George, MF Myers, R Reithinger, SI Hay
Elife | eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.7554/elife.02851
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Abstract
The leishmaniases are vector-borne diseases that have a broad global distribution throughout much of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Despite representing a significant public health burden, our understanding of the global distribution of the leishmaniases remains vague, reliant upon expert opinion and limited to poor spatial resolution. A global assessment of the consensus of evidence for leishmaniasis was performed at a sub-national level by aggregating information from a variety of sources. A database of records of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis occurrence was compiled from published literature, online reports, strain archives, and GenBank accessions. These, with a suite of biologica..
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Funding Acknowledgements
DMP is funded by a Sir Richard Southwood Graduate Scholarship from the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. SIH is funded by a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (095066) which also supports KAD and KEB. NG is funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (#OPP1053338). PWG is a Medical Research Council (UK) Career Development Fellow (#K00669X) and receives support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (#OPP1068048) which also supports SB. OJB is funded by a BBSRC studentship. JPM is funded by, and SIH and OJB acknowledge the support of, the International Research Consortium on Dengue Risk Assessment Management and Surveillance (IDAMS, European Commission 7th Framework Programme (#21803) http://www.idams.eu). JSB, CF and SRM acknowledge funding from NIH National Library of Medicine (R01LM010812). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.