Current sampling and sequencing biases of Lassa mammarenavirus limit inference from phylogeography and molecular epidemiology in Lassa fever endemic regions

• Liã Bárbara Arruda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: libarbara@gmail.com

  Current address: Wellcome Connecting Science, Hinxton, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3539-8154

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• Hayley Beth Free ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hayley Beth Free, David Simons

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Affiliation The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, United Kingdom

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• David Simons ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hayley Beth Free, David Simons

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-1656

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• Rashid Ansumana,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Community Health Sciences, Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone

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• Linzy Elton,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4270-1553

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• Najmul Haider,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Faculty of Natural Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

  Affiliation The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, United Kingdom

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• Isobella Honeyborne,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Danny Asogun,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ekpoma and Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Ambrose Alli University, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Timothy D. McHugh,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Francine Ntoumi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fondation Congolaise Pour la Recherche Médicale (FCRM), Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Alimuddin Zumla,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Richard Kock

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6561-3209

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