Correspondence Analysis of the Global Epidemiology of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis is mostly prevalent in the western and central Asia, North Africa, Southeastern
Europe, Central and South America while visceral leishmaniasis is most prevalent in Central, South and
Western Asia, the Mediterranean countries, East Africa, Southeastern Europe and South America. Result
from the correspondence analysis showed that the number of reported cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis is
increasing moderately while visceral leishmaniasis is increasing slightly. The plots showed that countries
that are clustered together have similar trend while isolated countries have irregular
trend.Correspondence analysis has helped to reveal many hidden patterns of the data and the models are
significant even with though the model was able to explain small amount of variation of the data. The
research concluded with some suggested policy statements and recommendation
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