“…The high prevalence of canine and human ATL in the village of Nova Esperança, an area where the first cases of CL were detected in 2015, supports the notion that outbreaks of human ATL and CTL are occurring in new areas in the southeast region of the state of Bahia, Brazil. While only a few wild animals have been documented with the L. braziliensis infection, as well a few cats and horses, based on our observations here and previous studies, dogs may be considered the most important reservoir of L. braziliensis [40,41,12,42,43,44]. In these endemic areas of the southeast region of Bahia, dogs are not only prized animals but have an economic importance since they are traded, and their prices vary depending on the ability of dogs to participate in hunting activities of wild animals that are consumed as food.…”