Data from: Global distribution maps of the Leishmaniases

Pigott, DMORCID logo, Bhatt, S, Golding, N, Duda, KA, Battle, KE, Brady, OJORCID logo, Messina, JP, Balard, Y, Bastien, P, Pratlong, F, Brownstein, JS, Freifeld, CC, Mekaru, SR, Gething, PW, George, DB, Myers, MF and Hay, SIORCID logo (2015). Data from: Global distribution maps of the Leishmaniases. [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.05f5h
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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.

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Leishmania

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