Frequency, active infection and load of Leishmania infantum and associated histological alterations in the genital tract of male and female dogs

• Viviane Cardoso Boechat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viviane Cardoso Boechat, Rodrigo Caldas Menezes

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

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Sandro Antonio Pereira ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Artur Augusto Velho Mendes Júnior ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Shanna Araujo dos Santos ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica e Vigilância em Leishmanioses, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Fabiano Borges Figueiredo ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Luiz Claudio Ferreira ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Serviço de Anatomia Patológica, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Francisco das Chagas de Carvalho Rodrigues ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Serviço de Anatomia Patológica, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Epidemiologia Clínica, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Rayane Teles -de-Freitas ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Rafaela Vieira Bruno ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Insetos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular (INCT-EM)/CNPq, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Fernanda Nazaré Morgado ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em Leishmaniose, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-251X

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• Rodrigo Caldas Menezes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viviane Cardoso Boechat, Rodrigo Caldas Menezes

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

  * E-mail: rodrigo.menezes@ini.fiocruz.br

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-3449

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