Natural infection by Leishmania infantum in the Lutzomyia longipalpis population of an endemic coastal area to visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil is not associated with bioclimatic factors

• Tiago Feitosa Mota ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiago Feitosa Mota, Orlando Marcos Farias de Sousa

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil

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• Orlando Marcos Farias de Sousa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiago Feitosa Mota, Orlando Marcos Farias de Sousa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil

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• Yuri de Jesus Silva,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil

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• Lairton Souza Borja,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil

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• Bruna Martins Macedo Leite,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil

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• Manuela da Silva Solcà,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escola de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia—Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

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• Djalma Alves de Melo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centro de Controle de Zoonoses de Camaçari, Camaçari, Brazil

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• Claudia Ida Brodskyn,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil

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• Edelberto Santos Dias,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Instituto René Rachou—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Patrícia Sampaio Tavares Veras,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Doenças Tropicais—INCT-DT, Salvador, Brazil

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• Deborah Bittencourt Mothé Fraga

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: deborah.fraga@bahia.fiocruz.br

  Affiliations Instituto Gonçalo Moniz—Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil, Escola de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia—Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Doenças Tropicais—INCT-DT, Salvador, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4788-0319

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