Leishmania infantum infecting the carnivore nasua nasua from urban forest fragments in an endemic area of visceral leishmaniasis in brazilian midwest

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    Some reports have detected Leishmania spp. in this carnivore species through serological and molecular methods (Voltarelli et_al, 2009; Porfirio et_al, 2018; Reis et_al, 2020), and L shawi was isolated from this mammal (Lainson et_al, 1989). In this region, L infantum has been detected in domestic cats (Antunes et_al, 2016; Metzdorf et_al, 2017) and wild mammal species as opossum and bats (Humberg et_al, 2012; de Rezende et_al, 2017; Castro et_al, 2020). There is strong evidence that synanthropic species as rodents, bats and marsupials play a role in the maintenance of L infantum in urban and . . .

     

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