A nationwide survey of Leishmania infantum infection in cats and associated risk factors in Italy.

• Main Authors: Roberta Iatta (Author), Tommaso Furlanello (Author), Vito Colella (Author), Viviana Domenica Tarallo (Author), Maria Stefania Latrofa (Author), Emanuele Brianti (Author), Paolo Trerotoli (Author), Nicola Decaro (Author), Eleonora Lorusso (Author), Bettina Schunack (Author), Guadalupe Mirò (Author), Filipe Dantas-Torres (Author), Domenico Otranto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Though scantly investigated, Leishmania infantum infection and clinical cases of leishmaniasis in cats have been recently reported in several countries of the Mediterranean basin, with large variability in prevalence data. A major limitation in the comparability of the data available is attributed t...