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Dogs are ideal sentinel hosts owing to their central role in the transmission of zoonotic\n                      <jats:italic>Leishmania infantum<\/jats:italic>\n                      , frequent exposure to sand fly bites, capacity to develop antibodies to phleboviruses, and close contact with humans. This study reports cross-sectional surveys of antibodies to\n                      <jats:italic>Leishmania<\/jats:italic>\n                      , Toscana virus (TOSV), and Sicilian sand fly virus (SFSV) in dogs from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatian Istria, Turkey, and Israel, as well as antibodies to salivary proteins of\n                      <jats:italic>Phlebotomus perniciosus<\/jats:italic>\n                      (Portugal, Spain, and Italy) and\n                      <jats:italic>Phlebotomus papatasi<\/jats:italic>\n                      (Spain and Italy), conducted within the Climate Monitoring and Decision Support Framework for the Detection and Mitigation of Sand fly Diseases with Cost\u2013Benefit and Climate Policy Measures (CLIMOS) project.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Blood samples and epidemiological data were collected from 2500 dogs. Antibodies to\n                      <jats:italic>Leishmania<\/jats:italic>\n                      were detected by indirect immunofluorescence, phlebovirus antibodies by seroneutralization assays, and antibodies to\n                      <jats:italic>P. perniciosus<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>P. papatasi<\/jats:italic>\n                      salivary antigens by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using recombinant proteins rSP03B and rSP36, respectively. Sources of antibody variability were evaluated using mixed-effects logistic regression models.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Antibodies to\n                      <jats:italic>L. infantum<\/jats:italic>\n                      , phleboviruses, and sand fly saliva were widely detected, although seroprevalence varied markedly by region. No\n                      <jats:italic>Leishmania<\/jats:italic>\n                      -seropositive dogs were found in Istria, parts of northern Spain, or several districts in Israel, whereas seroprevalence exceeded 30% in Sicily and in several Turkish and Spanish provinces. TOSV seropositivity was generally absent or below 5%, except in southern Spain (8\u201324%) and Mu\u011fla, Turkey (10%). SFSV exposure was highly focal, occurring mainly in Turkey (12%), Israel (12%), and Lisbon (7%). Exposure to\n                      <jats:italic>P. perniciosus<\/jats:italic>\n                      was very high in Portugal, Sicily, and most of Spain, while\n                      <jats:italic>P. papatasi<\/jats:italic>\n                      exposure was highest in Sicily and selected Spanish regions. Antibody variability was driven primarily by geographical location.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The marked geographical heterogeneity observed confirms dogs as valuable sentinels for sand-fly-borne infections. These infections are highly clustered across Mediterranean regions, likely reflecting differences in sand fly density and infection rates. 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