Test combination to detect latent Leishmania infection: A prevalence study in a newly endemic area for L. infantum, northeastern Italy

• Alessandra Mistral De Pascali,

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

  Affiliation Section of Microbiology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Renato Todeschini,

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

  Affiliation Unit of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Public Health, AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Simone Baiocchi,

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

  Affiliation Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Margherita Ortalli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Luciano Attard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Ana Victoria Ibarra-Meneses,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain, CIBERINFEC, Département de pathologie et microbiologie, Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, The Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

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• Eugenia Carrillo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eugenia Carrillo, Stefania Varani

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ecarrillo@isciii.es (EC); stefania.varani@unibo.it (SV)

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain, CIBERINFEC

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• Stefania Varani

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eugenia Carrillo, Stefania Varani

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ecarrillo@isciii.es (EC); stefania.varani@unibo.it (SV)

  Affiliations Section of Microbiology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0862-4937

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