Canine serological survey and dog culling ant its relationship with human visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic urban area.
Patricia Marques Moralejo BermudiDanielle Nunes Carneiro Castro CostaCaris Maroni NunesJose Eduardo TolezanoRoberto Mitsuyoshi HiramotoLilian Aparecida Colebrusco RodasRafael Silva CiprianoMarta BlangiardoFrancisco Chiaravalloti-NetoPublished in: BMC infectious diseases (2020)
The canine serological coverage, even at low intensity, carried out jointly with the culling of the positive dogs, suggested a decreasing effect on the occurrence of the disease in humans, whose effects would be seen two years after it was carried out.