AVL	American Visceral Leishmaniasis
ELISA	Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
MAFFT®	Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform
WHO	World Health Organization
qPCR	Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
NTC	No Template Control
IFAT	Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay
pNPP	Chromogenic Substrate Para-Nitrophenylphosphate
IEC	Evandro Chagas Institute
NNN	Neal, Novy and Nicolle
Tm	Melting Temperature
bp	Base Pairs
PPV	Positive Predictive Value
IgG	Immunoglobulin G
BSA	Bovine Serum Albumin
PBS	Phosphate-Buffered Saline
PBS-T	Phosphate-Buffered Saline Tween
OD	Optical Density
nm	Nanometer
RPMI	Roswell Park Memorial Institute
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
USA	United State of America
Cq	Cycle Quantification
BLAST	Basic Local Alignment Search Tool