Further thoughts on "Asymptomatic dogs are highly competent to transmit Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi to the natural vector"

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Centre, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Recife, Brazil; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy. Electronic address: filipe.vet@globo.com.
• ² Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
• ³ Department of Animal Health, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁴ Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
• ⁵ Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷ Unité de Dermatologie, Parasitologie CE, Mycologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation, Nantes-Atlantique (ONIRIS), France.
• ⁸ Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy.