Leishmania infantum-derived lipophosphoglycan as an antigen in the accurate serodiagnosis of canine leishmaniasis

• Ricardo Dias Portela ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Dias Portela, Rodrigo Pedro Soares

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Salvador, Bahia; Brazil

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• Rodrigo Pedro Soares ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Dias Portela, Rodrigo Pedro Soares

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Parasitology, René Rachou Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation; Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais; Brazil

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• Gabriela Porfírio Passos,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Teaching Hospital of Veterinary Medicine, UFBA; Salvador, Bahia; Brazil

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• Daniela Farias Larangeira,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Laboratory of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Teaching Hospital of Veterinary Medicine, UFBA; Salvador, Bahia; Brazil, Department of Anatomy, Pathology, and Veterinary Clinics of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny, UFBA, Salvador, BA, Brazil, CEP

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• Thiago Doria Barral,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Salvador, Bahia; Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1252-3605

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• Julia Ramos Sampaio,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Salvador, Bahia; Brazil

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• Marcos F. Bernardo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Salvador, Bahia; Brazil

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• Edneia Venâncio Alves-Sobrinho,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Parasitology, René Rachou Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation; Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais; Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4347-6004

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• Maria Terezinha Bahia,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Exact and Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Campus Morro do Cruzeiro; Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais; Brazil

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• Flaviane Alves Pinho,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Teaching Hospital of Veterinary Medicine, UFBA; Salvador, Bahia; Brazil, Department of Anatomy, Pathology, and Veterinary Clinics of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny, UFBA, Salvador, BA, Brazil, CEP

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• Stella Maria Barrouin-Melo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: barrouin@ufba.br

  Affiliations Laboratory of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Teaching Hospital of Veterinary Medicine, UFBA; Salvador, Bahia; Brazil, Department of Anatomy, Pathology, and Veterinary Clinics of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny, UFBA, Salvador, BA, Brazil, CEP

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3501-7366

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