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

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    Submitted by Adagilson Silva ([email protected]) on 2017-09-15T18:49:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 26448187 2015 and-inf.oa.pdf: 409773 bytes, checksum: 86f9fa8878143d50fff9aaa5d5cfab39 (MD5)Approved for entry into archive by Adagilson Silva ([email protected]) on 2017-09-15T19:47:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 26448187 2015 and-inf.oa.pdf: 409773 bytes, checksum: 86f9fa8878143d50fff9aaa5d5cfab39 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-15T19:47:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 26448187 2015 and-inf.oa.pdf: 409773 bytes, checksum: 86f9fa8878143d50fff9aaa5d5cfab39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Aggeu Magalhães. Recife, PE, BrasilThe 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 rodent host species previously shown to have high natural infection prevalences in both sylvatic or/and peridomestic habitats in close proximity to humans in northeast Brazil
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