학술논문
Global burden of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a cross-sectional analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
Document Type
Academic Journal
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Source
The Lancet Infectious Diseases. May, 2016, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p584, 8 p.
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Language
English
ISSN
1473-3099
Abstract
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00003-7 Byline: Chante Karimkhani, Valentine Wanga, Luc E Coffeng, Paria Naghavi, Robert P Dellavalle, Mohsen Naghavi Abstract: High-quality epidemiological studies evaluating the burden of cutaneous leishmaniasis worldwide are lacking. We compared the burden of cutaneous leishmaniasis in each country to the overall global burden and assessed the equality of cutaneous leishmaniasis burden across different countries and regions. Author Affiliation: (a) University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA (b) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (c) Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, CA Rotterdam, Netherlands (d) Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA (e) Dermatology Service, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO, USA (f) Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA