Impact of the dog population and household environment for the maintenance of natural foci of Leishmania infantum transmission to human and animal hosts in endemic areas for visceral leishmaniasis in Sao Paulo state, Brazil

• Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto, Elivelton da Silva Fonseca, José Eduardo Tolezano

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Av. Dr. Arnaldo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  Affiliation Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7205-7557

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• Roberto Mitsuyoshi Hiramoto ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-1505

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• Virgínia Bodelão Richini Pereira ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Adolfo Lutz Institute, Regional Laboratories Center II Bauru, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Valéria Medina Camprigher ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Zoonoses Control of Bauru, Health Secretariat of Bauru, Bauru, Brazil

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• Helena Hilomi Taniguchi ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• José Eduardo de Raeffray Barbosa ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bioterium nucleos, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Luiz Ricardo Paes de Barros Cortez ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Zoonoses Control of Bauru, Health Secretariat of Bauru, Bauru, Brazil

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• Elivelton da Silva Fonseca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto, Elivelton da Silva Fonseca, José Eduardo Tolezano

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

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Raul Borges Guimarães ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Sao Paulo State University/Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT/UNESP), Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• José Eduardo Tolezano

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto, Elivelton da Silva Fonseca, José Eduardo Tolezano

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tolezano@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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