medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257380; this version posted May 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license . 1 Impact of the household environment risk for maintenance of natural foci of Leishmania infantum transmission to human and animal hosts in endemic areas for visceral leishmaniasis in Sao Paulo State, Brazil Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto1, Roberto Mitsuyoshi Hiramoto2 Virgínia Bodelão Richini Pereira3 Valéria Medina Camprigher4, Helena Hilomi Taniguchi5, José Eduardo de Raeffray Barbosa6, Luiz Ricardo Paes de Barros Cortez7, Elivelton da Silva Fonseca8, Raul Borges Guimarães9 and José Eduardo Tolezano10* 1 Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
[email protected] 2 Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
[email protected] 3 Adolfo Lutz Institute, Regional Laboratories Center II Bauru, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
[email protected] 4 Center for Zoonoses Control of Bauru. Health Secretariat of Bauru;
[email protected] 5 Parasitology and Mycology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
[email protected] 6 Bioterium nucleos, Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
[email protected] 7 Center for Zoonoses Control of Bauru.