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The main risk factors associated with this disease were having 1\u20133 rooms in a house compared with \u2265 4 rooms, having a roof that was not made of cement, and having domestic animals. In contrast, only 19% of dogs were seropositive, suggesting that this species is not important in the transmission cycle of <jats:italic>Leishmania<\/jats:italic>. 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