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Published June 27, 2015 | Version v1
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Data from: Global distribution maps of the Leishmaniases

Creators

  • 1. University of Oxford
  • 2. French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • 3. Children's Hospital
  • 4. Boston University
  • 5. National Institutes of Health
  • 6. RTI International

Description

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 biologically relevant environmental covariates, were used in a boosted regression tree modelling framework to generate global environmental risk maps for the leishmaniases. These high-resolution evidence-based maps can help direct future surveillance activities, identify areas to target for disease control and inform future burden estimation efforts.

Notes

Global Evidence Consensus for Visceral Leishmanisis
A survey of the evidence for the presence or absence of visceral leishmaniasis in each province/state in the world (Admin 1)
Evidence Consensus for Visceral Leishmanisis 0321.docx
Global Evidence Consensus for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
A survey of the evidence for the presence or absence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in each province/state in the world (Admin 1)
Evidence Consensus for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis 0321.docx
Database of cutaneous leishmaniasis occurrences
A database containing cutaneous leishmaniasis occurrences used in the boosted regression trees analysis
CL_final_dataset.xlsx
Database of visceral leishmaniasis occurrences
A database containing visceral leishmaniasis occurrences used in the boosted regression trees analysis
VL_final_dataset.xlsx
Populations living in areas of environmental risk of Leishmaniasis
These data tables reported the estimated populations living in areas of environmental risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) or visceral leishmaniasis (VL). For a full methodology and indications of geographic range of these populations, please consult the full publication that this dataset is associated with: Pigott et al. (2014) "Global distribution maps of the leishmaniases"
Populations_at_risk_CLVL.docx

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10.7554/eLife.02851 (DOI)