Maia, Carla https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-7686
Fraga, Deborah Bittencourt Mothé
Cristóvão, José
Borja, Lairton Souza
da Silva Solcà, Manuela
Campino, Lenea
Veras, Patrícia Sampaio Tavares
Gonçalves, Luzia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (GHTM-UID/Multi/04413/2013)
CYTED Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo (P210RT0656)
Article History
Received: 13 January 2022
Accepted: 19 May 2022
First Online: 13 June 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures were carried out as complying with the Portuguese legislation for the protection of animals (Decree-Law no. 113/2013), to the Brazilian Federal Law on Animal Experimentation (Law no. 11794), the guidelines for animal research established by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), and the Brazilian Ministry of Health Manual for the Surveillance and Control of Visceral Leishmaniasis. The FIOCRUZ Review Board and the ethics committee of IHMT approved the present study (CEUA: protocol no. 015/2009; IHMT: authorization no. 8 2011-PI). Dog owners and legal detainer of the private shelters who agreed to participate in the study signed a consent form.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.