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- Title
An interactive database of Leishmania species distribution in the Americas.
- Authors
Herrera, Giovanny; Barragán, Natalia; Luna, Nicolás; Martínez, David; De Martino, Frasella; Medina, Julián; Niño, Sergio; Páez, Luisa; Ramírez, Angie; Vega, Laura; Velandia, Valeria; Vera, Michelle; Zúñiga, María Fernanda; Bottin, Marius Jean; Ramírez, Juan David
- Abstract
The Americas have an elevated number of leishmaniasis cases (accounting for two-thirds of the worldwide disease burden) and circulating Leishmania species, and are therefore of interest in terms of epidemiological surveillance. Here, we present a systematic review of Leishmania parasite species circulating in the countries of the American continent, together with complementary information on epidemiology and geospatial distribution. A database was built from data published between 1980 and 2018 on Leishmania species identified in most of the American countries. A total of 1499 georeferenced points were extracted from published articles and subsequently located to 14 countries in the Americas. This database could be used as a reference when surveilling the occurrence of Leishmania species in the continent. Measurement(s) Distribution Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) reference • political division • type of sample • species • method of identification • geographic coordinates Sample Characteristic - Organism Leishmania Sample Characteristic - Location North America • South America Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11993970
- Subjects
AMERICA; LEISHMANIASIS; PARASITES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
Scientific Data, 2020, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2052-4463
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41597-020-0451-5