Detection of Leishmania spp in silvatic mammals and isolation of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis from Rattus rattus in an endemic area for leishmaniasis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil

• Agnes Antônia Sampaio Pereira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: agnes.pereira@cpqrr.fiocruz.br

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5272-2502

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• Eduardo de Castro Ferreira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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• Ana Cristina Viana Mariano da Rocha Lima,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Gabriel Barbosa Tonelli,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Felipe Dutra Rêgo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Adriano Pereira Paglia,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• José Dilermando Andrade-Filho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Gustavo Fontes Paz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Fontes Paz, Célia Maria Ferreira Gontijo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Célia Maria Ferreira Gontijo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Fontes Paz, Célia Maria Ferreira Gontijo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ/MINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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