Leishmaniasis in Norway Rats in Sewers, Barcelona, Spain Galan Puchades, Maria Teresa Gómez Samblás, María Mercedes Suarez Moran, Jose Maria Osuna, Antonio Sanxis Furio, Joan Pascual, Jordi Bueno Marí, Rubén Franco, Sandra Peracho, Victor Montalvo, Tomas Fuentes, Marius V Leishmania infantum Rattus norvegicus Barcelona Spain sewer system reservoir We detected Leishmania infantum in 98 Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) trapped in parks and sewers of Barcelona, Spain. The 84 rats from the sewers showed a prevalence of 33.3% and up to 2,272 estimated parasites. These results, in the most abundant potential reservoir in cities, is of public health concern. 2025-01-20T09:00:28Z 2025-01-20T09:00:28Z 2019-06-06 journal article Galán-Puchades MT, Gómez-Samblás M, Suárez-Morán JM, Osuna A, Sanxis-Furió J, Pascual J, Bueno-Marí R, Franco S, Peracho V, Montalvo T, Fuentes MV. Leishmaniasis in Norway Rats in Sewers, Barcelona, Spain. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 Jun;25(6):1222-1224. doi: 10.3201/eid2506.181027. PMID: 31107216; PMCID: PMC6537722. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/99650 10.3201/eid2506.181027 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Emerging Infectious Diseases