Failure of the dog culling strategy in controlling human visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil: A screening coverage issue?

• Main Authors: Lucas Christian de Sousa-Paula (Author), Lidiane Gomes da Silva (Author), Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva Sales (Author), Filipe Dantas-Torres (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In the present study, we assessed the annual screening coverage (i.e., the percentage of dogs that are screened for anti-Leishmania antibodies annually) in the municipality of Sobral, Ceará state, Brazil. Data on the number of dogs screened during 2008-2017 (except 2010) were obtained from the Cent...