This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/PIM.12770 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved MS MANSOUREH KARIMI KAKH (Orcid ID : 0000-0001-6815-8275) Article type : Original Paper Application of the Leishmania infantum 21 kDa recombinant protein for the development of an immunochromatographic test Mansoureh Karimi Kakh 1 , Mehdi Golchin 2 , Mohammad Kazemi Arababadi 3 , Hamid Daneshvar 1 * 1 Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Science, Kerman, Iran 2 Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran 3 Immunology of Infectious Diseases Research Center, Research Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran * Corresponding author: Accepted Article