Heterogeneities in Leishmania infantum Infection: Using Skin Parasite Burdens to Identify Highly Infectious Dogs

• Orin Courtenay ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Orin Courtenay, Connor Carson

  * E-mail: o.courtenay@warwick.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, and Warwick Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (WIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Connor Carson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Orin Courtenay, Connor Carson

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, and Warwick Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (WIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Leo Calvo-Bado,

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, and Warwick Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (WIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Lourdes M. Garcez,

  Affiliations Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Imunologia aplicada às Leishmanioses, Seção de Parasitologia, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, Pará, Brazil, Centro do Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade do Estado do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

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• Rupert J. Quinnell

  Affiliation School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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