Noteworthy also is the fact that a peptide from L. infantum GP63 that has been previously shown to react strongly with sera from dogs infected with visceral leishmaniasis [40] is nearly identical to one of the L. braziliensis B-cell epitopes predicted by our analysis within the Lbr10.0590 polypeptide (not shown). This evidence concerns the gene LMLN and visceral leishmaniasis.