Infectiousness of Sylvatic and Synanthropic Small Rodents Implicates a Multi-host Reservoir of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis.

• Main Authors: Maria S Andrade (Author), Orin Courtenay (Author), Maria E F Brito (Author), Francisco G Carvalho (Author), Ana Waléria S Carvalho (Author), Fábia Soares (Author), Silvia M Carvalho (Author), Pietra L Costa (Author), Ricardo Zampieri (Author), Lucile M Floeter-Winter (Author), Jeffrey J Shaw (Author), Sinval P Brandão-Filho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:The possibility that a multi-host wildlife reservoir is responsible for maintaining transmission of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis causing human cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis is tested by comparative analysis of infection progression and infectiousness to sandflies in roden...