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Volume 30, Number 12—December 2024
Research

Dogs as Reservoirs for Leishmania donovani, Bihar, India, 2018–2022

Anurag Kumar Kushwaha1, Ashish Shukla1, Breanna M. Scorza, Rahul Chaubey, Dharmendra Kumar Maurya, Tulika Kumari Rai, Shyamali Yaduvanshi, Shweta Srivastava, Gaetano Oliva, Epke A. Le Rutte, Rajiv Kumar, Om Prakash Singh, Puja Tiwary, Shakti Kumar Singh, Scott A. Bernhardt, Phillip Lawyer, Edgar Rowton, Christine A. Petersen1Comments to Author , and Shyam Sundar1
Author affiliation: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (A.K. Kushwaha, A. Shukla, D.K. Maurya, T.K. Rai, S. Yaduvanshi, S. Srivastava, R. Kumar, O.P. Singh, P. Tiwary); University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA (B.M. Scorza, C.A. Petersen); Kala-Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, India (R. Chaubey, S. Sundar); University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (G. Oliva), Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (E.A. Le Rutte); National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi, India (S.K. Singh); Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA (S.A. Bernhardt); Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (P. Lawyer, E. Rowton)

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Figure 3

Plot of dogs with detectable parasitemia during the rainy season from villages in the Muzaffarpur district in a study of dogs as reservoirs for Leishmania donovani, Bihar, India, 2018–2022. Lower lever of whiskers indicate mean, upper level indicates standard deviation. A) Parasitemia measured by quantitative PCR of whole blood DNA. Statistical significance between different seasons (shown above diamond bars) measured by Fisher exact test. B) Leishmania rK39 ELISA absorbance ratio detected from canine serum. Dotted line indicates OD cutoff. Kruskal-Wallis with Dunn’s posttest was performed, but no statistically significant differences were found for B. OD, optical density.

Figure 3. Plot of dogs with detectable parasitemia during the rainy season from villages in the Muzaffarpur district in a study of dogs as reservoirs for Leishmania donovani, Bihar, India, 2018–2022. Lower lever of whiskers indicate mean, upper level indicates standard deviation. A) Parasitemia measured by quantitative PCR of whole blood DNA. Statistical significance between different seasons (shown above diamond bars) measured by Fisher exact test. B) Leishmania rK39 ELISA absorbance ratio detected from canine serum. Dotted line indicates OD cutoff. Kruskal-Wallis with Dunn’s posttest was performed, but no statistically significant differences were found for B. OD, optical density.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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