Prevalence of asymptomatic Leishmania infection and knowledge, perceptions, and practices in blood donors in mainland Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Rafael
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Luzia, Conceição, Cláudia, Andrade, Patrícia, Cristóvão, José Manuel, Condeço, Jorge, Delgado, Beatriz, Caeiro, Cristina, Kuzmenko, Tetyana, Vasconcelos, Eugénia, Escoval, Maria Antónia, Rey, Carmen, Guz, Madalina, Norte, Cláudia, Aldeia, Carlos, Cruz, Diego, Maia, Carla
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/163181
• topic: Asymptomatic; Blood donor; Knowledge; Leishmania; Leishmaniasis; One Health; Perceptions; Portugal; Practices; Seroprevalence; R Medicine; RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; Parasitology; veterinary(all); Infectious Diseases; SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; SDG 13 - Climate Action

Funding Information: This paper has been sponsored by Elanco Animal Health in the framework of the CVBD®World Forum Symposium. The authors would like to acknowledge all the blood donors who agreed to participate in this study for contributing with their answers to the questionnaire and their blood samples. The authors would also like to acknowledge all the professionals of the following institutions that contributed to organization of physical equipment, presentation of the study to potential participants, obtaining of informed consent, separation and storage of samples and questionnaires: Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação; Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve; Hospital do Espírito Santo de Évora; Unidade Local de Sáude do Norte Alentejano; Unidade Local de Saúde do Baixo Alentejo and Unidade Local de Saúde do Litoral Alentejano. Lastly, the authors would like to acknowledge the researcher Regina Loesch for her contribution to filling in the electronic database with answers to the paper questionnaires, and the researcher Ana Rita Goes for her contributions to designing the questionnaire for this study. Funding Information: RR was supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science (via Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.—FCT) through a PhD grant (UI/BD/151067/2021). The authors would also like to acknowledge FCT for funding through contracts with GHTM (UID/Multi/04413/2020, UIDB/00006/2020 and UIDP/00006/2020) and LA-REAL (LA/P/0117/2020). This project was also funded by the Tropical Clinic Unit (Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [IHMT]). Publisher Copyright: © 2023, BioMed Central Ltd., part of Springer Nature.