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Culling Dogs for Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis Control: The Wind of Change
Filipe Dantas-Torres1, Guadalupe Miró2, Dwight D Bowman3
1Department of Immunology, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães (Fiocruz-PE), Pernambuco, Brazil; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy.
Abstract:
Visceral leishmaniasis, caused by Leishmania infantum, is a zoonosis, and culling seropositive dogs has been recommended to control the disease in some endemic countries. However, no scientific evidence supports the effectiveness of this strategy to reduce the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis. Economic and ethical issues concerning dog culling are discussed.
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