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.
Translated title of the contribution | Una base de datos interactiva sobre la distribución de las especies de Leishmania en las Américas |
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Original language | English (US) |
Article number | 110 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Scientific data |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 3 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Information Systems
- Education
- Computer Science Applications
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Library and Information Sciences