Running title: Reservoirs of Leishmania donovani on
Indian Subcontinent
Anurag Kumar Kushwaha1, Breanna M.
Scorza2, Om Prakash Singh3, Edgar
Rowton4, Phillip Lawyer5, Shyam
Sundar1# , Christine A.
Petersen2,6#
1Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical
Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.2Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. 3Department
of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, India. 4Division of Entomology, Walter Reed
Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.5Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health,
Bethesda, MD, USA. 6Center for Emerging Infectious
Diseases, University of Iowa, Coralville, Iowa, USA.