In the article “Epidemiological situation and control of schistosomiasis in Pernambuco, Brazil: a descriptive study, 2010-2016”, DOI number: 10.5123/S1679-49742020000200015, published in Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde (Epidemiology and Health Services) journal, 29(2): e2019252, 2020, the additional information should be taken into consideration: “Figure 1, published on page 3 of the article, is a modified version of a map whose authorial property belongs to Núcleo de Estatística e Geoprocessamento (NEG), Fiocruz Pernambuco (Instituto Aggeu Magalhães), originally published in an article entitled “Spatial analysis of reported new cases and local risk of leprosy in hyper-endemic situation in Northeastern Brazil”, in Tropical Medicine and International Health journal, DOI number:10.1111/tmi.13067, 23(7):748-757.”

This additional information is necessary due to the omission of authorship attribution of a modified version of the map showed in Figure 1, whose original version was published in the article entitled “Spatial analysis of reported new cases and local risk of leprosy in hyper-endemic situation in Northeastern Brazil”, published in Tropical Medicine and International Health journal, DOI number:10.1111/tmi.13067, 23(7):748-757