Road-killed
wild animals have been classified as sentinels for detecting such zoonotic pathogens asLeishmania spp., offering new opportunities for
epidemiological studies of this
infection. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of
Leishmania spp. and
Leishmania chagasi DNA by
PCR in
tissue samples (
lung,
liver,
spleen,
kidney,
heart, mesenteric
lymph node and
adrenal gland) from 70 road-killed
wild animals.