Lower levels of leptin are associated with severity parameters in visceral leishmaniasis patients

• Aline Mireille da Cunha Fievez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aline Mireille da Cunha Fievez, Maria Luciana Silva-Freitas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Hospital São José de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas–Instituto Oswaldo Cruz—FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Maria Luciana Silva-Freitas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aline Mireille da Cunha Fievez, Maria Luciana Silva-Freitas

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas–Instituto Oswaldo Cruz—FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa,

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

  Affiliation Hospital São José de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Joanna R. Santos-Oliveira ,

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

  * E-mail: alda@ioc.fiocruz.br (AMDC); joanna.oliveira@ifrj.edu.br (JRSO)

  Affiliations Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas–Instituto Oswaldo Cruz—FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Núcleo de Ciências Biomédicas Aplicadas, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia–IFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, National Institute of Science and Technology on Neuroimmunomodulation (INCT-NIM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3155-6717

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• Alda M. Da-Cruz

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

  * E-mail: alda@ioc.fiocruz.br (AMDC); joanna.oliveira@ifrj.edu.br (JRSO)

  Affiliations Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas–Instituto Oswaldo Cruz—FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, National Institute of Science and Technology on Neuroimmunomodulation (INCT-NIM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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