Macroecological patterns of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis transmission across the health areas of Panamá (1980-2012).

However, the best model (Table S4 in Appendix 1) had an increasing positive association between the number of cases and rainfall (described by the increasing half of u shaped 2nd degree polynomial) and a nearly significant negative association with the ecosystem index, a model that still suggest the importance of wet/rainy environments for ACL transmission. 3.3.

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