About the Authors
- Derrick E. Fouts
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* E-mail: dfouts@jcvi.org (DEF); jvinetz@ucsd.edu (JMV)
Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Michael A. Matthias
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Haritha Adhikarla
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Ben Adler
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Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
- Luciane Amorim-Santos
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/MS, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Douglas E. Berg
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Dieter Bulach
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Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Alejandro Buschiazzo
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Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Microbiology, Montevideo, Uruguay, Institut Pasteur, Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Paris, France
- Yung-Fu Chang
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Renee L. Galloway
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS, CDC, OID, NCEZID, DHCPP, BSPB), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- David A. Haake
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Affiliations VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Daniel H. Haft
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Current address: National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Rudy Hartskeerl
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Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Albert I. Ko
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/MS, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Paul N. Levett
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Affiliation Government of Saskatchewan, Disease Control Laboratory Regina, Canada
- James Matsunaga
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Affiliations VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ariel E. Mechaly
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Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Microbiology, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Jonathan M. Monk
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Ana L. T. Nascimento
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Affiliations Centro de Biotecnologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, Programa Interunidades em Biotecnologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Karen E. Nelson
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Bernhard Palsson
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Sharon J. Peacock
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Mathieu Picardeau
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Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes Unit, National Reference Centre and WHO Collaborating Center for Leptospirosis, Paris, France
- Jessica N. Ricaldi
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt; Facultad de Medicina Alberto Hurtado, Universidd Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Janjira Thaipandungpanit
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Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Elsio A. Wunder Jr.
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/MS, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- X. Frank Yang
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Jun-Jie Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Joseph M. Vinetz
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* E-mail: dfouts@jcvi.org (DEF); jvinetz@ucsd.edu (JMV)
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt; Facultad de Medicina Alberto Hurtado, Universidd Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Instituto de Medicina “Alexander von Humboldt,” Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DEF MAM JMV. Performed the experiments: DAF MAM. Analyzed the data: DEF MAM HA BA LAS DEB DB AB YFC RLG DAH DHH RH AIK PNL JM AEM JMM ALTN KEN BP SJP MP JNR JT EAW XFY JJZ JMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DEF MAM HA BA LAS DEB DB AB YFC RLG DAH DHH RH AIK PNL JM AEM JMM ALTN KEN BP SJP MP JNR JT EAW XFY JJZ JMV. Wrote the paper: DEF MAM HA BA LAS DEB DB AB YFC RLG DAH DHH RH AIK PNL JM AEM JMM ALTN KEN BP SJP MP JNR JT EAW XFY JJZ JMV.