Infectiousness of Sylvatic and Synanthropic Small Rodents Implicates a Multi-host Reservoir of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

• Maria S. Andrade ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria S. Andrade, Orin Courtenay

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Orin Courtenay ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria S. Andrade, Orin Courtenay

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

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• Maria E. F. Brito,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Francisco G. Carvalho,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Ana Waléria S. Carvalho,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Fábia Soares,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Silvia M. Carvalho,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Pietra L. Costa,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Ricardo Zampieri,

  Affiliation Biosiences Institute, São Paulo University, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Lucile M. Floeter-Winter,

  Affiliation Biosiences Institute, São Paulo University, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Jeffrey J. Shaw ,

  * E-mail: jayusp@hotmail.com (JJS); sinval@cpqam.fiocruz.br SPBF

  ¶‡ JJS and SPBF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biomedical Institute, São Paulo University, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Sinval P. Brandão-Filho

  * E-mail: jayusp@hotmail.com (JJS); sinval@cpqam.fiocruz.br SPBF

  ¶‡ JJS and SPBF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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