Prophylactic low-dose, bi-weekly benznidazole treatment fails to prevent Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs under intense transmission pressure

• Juan M. Bustamante,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Angel M. Padilla,

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

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Brooke White,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Lisa D. Auckland,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Rachel E. Busselman,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Stephanie Collins,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chaparral Veterinary Center, Jourdanton, Texas, United States of America

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• Elizabeth L. Malcolm,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Briana F. Wilson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Ashley B. Saunders,

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

  Affiliation Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Sarah A. Hamer,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Rick L. Tarleton

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

  * E-mail: tarleton@uga.edu

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9589-5243

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