Role of asymptomatic and symptomatic humans as reservoirs of visceral leishmaniasis in a Mediterranean context

• Ricardo Molina ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Molina, Maribel Jiménez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmolina@isciii.es (RM); mjimenez@isciii.es (MJ); jalvar@dndi.org (JA)

  Affiliations Laboratory of Medical Entomology, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-173X

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• Maribel Jiménez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Molina, Maribel Jiménez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmolina@isciii.es (RM); mjimenez@isciii.es (MJ); jalvar@dndi.org (JA)

  Affiliations Laboratory of Medical Entomology, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5615-3087

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• Jesús García-Martínez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Clinical Laboratory Service, Blood Bank, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5843-451X

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• Juan Víctor San Martín,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-5124

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• Eugenia Carrillo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Carmen Sánchez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Javier Moreno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Fabiana Alves,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jorge Alvar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmolina@isciii.es (RM); mjimenez@isciii.es (MJ); jalvar@dndi.org (JA)

  Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2920-742X

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