Identification of trypanosomatids and blood feeding preferences of phlebotomine sand fly species common in Sicily, Southern Italy

• Jessica Maria Abbate,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Carla Maia,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-7686

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• André Pereira,

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

  Affiliation Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Francesca Arfuso,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Gabriella Gaglio,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Maria Rizzo,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Giulia Caracappa,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Gabriele Marino,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Matthias Pollmeier,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany

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• Salvatore Giannetto,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Emanuele Brianti

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

  * E-mail: ebrianti@unime.it

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5613-0144

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