About the Authors

Lilani Karunanayake

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Department of Bacteriology, Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Chandika D. Gamage

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Chandima P. Gunasekara

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Department of Bacteriology, Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sajiv De Silva

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Base Hospital, Elpitiya, Sri Lanka

Hidemasa Izumiya

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Masatomo Morita

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Devinda S. Muthusinghe

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Kumiko Yoshimatsu

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Roshan Niloofa

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Panduka Karunanayake

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Wimalasiri Uluwattage

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Sri Lanka

Makoto Ohnishi

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuo Koizumi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nkoizumi@niid.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.