Correspondence Analysis of the Global Epidemiology of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis

Okagbue, H. I. and Adamu, M. O. and Owoloko, E. A. and Opanuga, A. A. (2015) Correspondence Analysis of the Global Epidemiology of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis. Indian Journal Of Natural Sciences, 6 (31). pp. 8634-8652. ISSN 0976 – 0997

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Abstract

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

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Leishmaniasis, cutaneous, visceral, epidemiology, correspondence analysis, risk factors
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Mathematics
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2015 14:48
Last Modified:	21 Sep 2015 14:48
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/5465

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