Urban landscape and infection risk in free-roaming cats.

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"Preliminary results were presented as an oral presentation at the 37èmes Rencontres du GEEFSM. Etroubles, Vallee d'Aoste, Italia, 13‐16 Jun 2019. We thank the Department of Public Health of Murcia and the official Veterinary Services at Centro Municipal de Control de Zoonosis de la ciudad de Murcia (CMCZ). This research was partially funded by the City Council of Murcia through the OTRI research contract awarded to the Department of Animal Health of the University of Murcia, ‘Epidemiological study of parasitic and infectious agents affecting stray cats in the municipality of Murcia. Zoonotic implications of the cat and its role as an environmental biomarker'. The authors would like to thank the official Veterinary Services and trappers at Centro Municipal de Control de Zoonosis from the Municipality of Murcia (CMCZ) for providing us with euthanized animals according to European Union protocols for animal welfare and bioethics. We are also very grateful to Dr. Pedro Pérez Cutillas for his supervision, review and improvement of the text describing the study area. Emmanuel Serrano is supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN) through a Ramon y Cajal agreement (RYC‐2016‐21120). João Carvalho was supported by a research contract (CEECIND/01428/2018) from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Thanks for financial support are also due to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/2019), to FCT/MCTES through national funds and co‐funding by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. Finally, we would also like to acknowledge the inspiring comments of two anonymous reviewers who helped to improve the understanding of the work presented."