Can Equids Be a Reservoir of Leishmania braziliensis in Endemic Areas?

• Jessé Henrique Truppel,

  Affiliations Center for Zoonoses Control, Department of Health Surveillance, Municipal Health Department, Araucária, Paraná, Brazil, Post-Graduation Program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Flavio Otomura,

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Health Sciences, Maringá State University (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Ueslei Teodoro,

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Health Sciences, Maringá State University (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Rubens Massafera,

  Affiliation Surveillance Service of Health, Ministry of Health, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Magda Clara Vieira da Costa-Ribeiro,

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Carolina Motter Catarino,

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Luana Dalagrana,

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Maria Eugênia Moreira Costa Ferreira,

  Affiliation Geography Department, Maringá State University (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Vanete Thomaz-Soccol

  * E-mail: vanete.soccol@pq.cnpq.br

  Affiliation Post-Graduation Program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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