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Volume 26, Number 1—January 2020
Synopsis

Spatial Epidemiologic Trends and Hotspots of Leishmaniasis, Sri Lanka, 2001–2018

Nadira D. Karunaweera1Comments to Author , Samitha Ginige, Sanath Senanayake, Hermali Silva, Nuwani Manamperi, Nilakshi Samaranayake, Yamuna Siriwardana, Deepa Gamage, Upul Senerath, and Guofa Zhou1
Author affiliations: University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka (N.D. Karunaweera, S. Senanayake, H. Silva, N. Samaranayake, Y. Siriwardana, U. Senerath); Ministry of Health, Colombo (S. Ginige, D. Gamage); University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Western Sri Lanka (N. Manamperi); University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA (G. Zhou)

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Table 1

Estimates of population living at risk for leishmaniasis during 2001, 2009, and 2018, Sri Lanka*

Cases/100,000 population 2001
 2009
 2018
No. districts Population No. districts Population No. districts Population
0 12 7,728,455 7 3,899,690 2 1,306,933
<1 11 10,157,597 11 11,453,975 6 6,988,158
1–10 2 911,205 4 2,290,870 9 6,622,843
11–50 0 0 3 2,194,176 4 3,862,871
51–100 0 0 0 0 3 2,211,753
>100
 0
 0
0
 0
1
 639,340
Total 25 18,797,257 25 19,838,711 25 21,631,898

*Determined by using cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence rates per district and census data from the government of Sri Lanka (http://www.statistics.gov.lk) from 2001 to project potential incidence rates for 2009 and from 2012 to project incidence rates for 2018.

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1These authors were co–principal investigators for this article.

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