High levels of infectiousness of asymptomatic Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infections in wild rodents highlights their importance in the epidemiology of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Brazil

• José Ferreira Marinho-Júnior,

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

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/FIOCRUZ, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Juliana F. C. L. S. Monteiro,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/FIOCRUZ, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Ana Waléria Sales de Carvalho,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/FIOCRUZ, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Francisco Gomes de Carvalho,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/FIOCRUZ, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Milena de Paiva Cavalcanti,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/FIOCRUZ, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Jeffrey Shaw,

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

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Orin Courtenay ,

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

  * E-mail: sinval.brandao@fiocruz.br (SPBF); orin.courtenay@warwick.ac.uk (OC)

  Affiliation The Zeeman Institute and School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho

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

  * E-mail: sinval.brandao@fiocruz.br (SPBF); orin.courtenay@warwick.ac.uk (OC)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães/FIOCRUZ, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3768-2810

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