Knowledge and practices regarding leishmaniasis in Portugal - Comparison between blood donors and health students/professionals.

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"Funding RR was supported by the Portuguese 10.13039/501100005992Ministry of Education and Science (via 10.13039/501100001871Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. - FCT) through a PhD grant (UI/BD/151067/2021). The authors would also like to acknowledge FCT for funding through contracts with GHTM (UID/Multi/04413/2020) and LA-REAL (LA/P/0117/2020). The work of CM was supported by the 10.13039/501100000780European Commission grant 101057690 and UKRI grants 10038150 and 10039289 and is catalogued by the CLIMOS Scientific Committee as CLIMOS003 (http://www.climos-project.eu). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission, the Health and Digital Executive Agency, or UKRI. Neither the European Union nor granting authority nor UKRI can be held responsible. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. For the purposes of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. The six Horizon Europe projects, BlueAdapt, CATALYSE, CLIMOS, HIGH Horizons, IDAlert, and TRIGGER, form the Climate Change and Health Cluster."