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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 3

Differences in sex and age distribution in cases of leishmaniasis against census data for regions of Sri Lanka, 2015–2018*

Characteristics by province F, no. (%) M, no. (%) Total
 χ2 df p value
North-Central 198 (32.0) 420 (68.0) 618 159.50 1 <0.001
Southern 636 (40.7) 925 (59.3) 1,561 107.01 1 <0.001
North-Central versus Southern
14.20
 1
 0.002
Standard residuals†
Age ranges by province, y
F
 M
North-Central
0–14 39 (19.7) 31 (7.4) −1.29 –3.85 20.38 2 <0.001
15–49 95 (48.0) 237 (56.4) −0.75 0.56
≥50 64 (32.3) 152 (36.2) 2.70 3.62
Southern
    0–14 49 (25.5) 37 (13.9) −0.96 –2.27 37.76 2 <0.001
    15–49 76 (39.6) 162 (60.7) −0.49 1.60
    ≥50
 67 (34.9)
 68 (25.5)
 1.55
 0.07
North-Central versus Southern
F by age group 0.69 2 0.7065
M by age group
 27.74 2 <0.001

*Leishmaniasis case count data provided by regional medical health officers. Where not specified, comparisons were made between the number of female and male cases in different age groups within the same region. df, degrees of freedom.
†Age distributions by sex standardized against census data from the same regions. Numbers in bold indicate statistically significant difference from census (p<0.05).

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

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