Detecting Leishmania in dogs: A hierarchical-modeling approach to investigate the performance of parasitological and qPCR-based diagnostic procedures

• Tamires Vital,

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

  Affiliations Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Biociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil, Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Ana Izabel Passarella Teixeira,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Débora Marcolino Silva,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Bruna Caroline de Carvalho,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Biociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Bruno Dallago,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Bem-estar Animal, Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Luciana Hagström,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Biociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Mariana Machado Hecht,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Biociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Nadjar Nitz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nadjar Nitz, Fernando Abad-Franch

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

  * E-mail: nadjarnitz@gmail.com (NN); abadfr@yahoo.com (FAF)

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Biociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Fernando Abad-Franch

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nadjar Nitz, Fernando Abad-Franch

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nadjarnitz@gmail.com (NN); abadfr@yahoo.com (FAF)

  Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-0328

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