Bacillus anthracis Diversity and Geographic Potential across Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Further Support of a Novel West African Lineage

• Jason K. Blackburn ,

  * E-mail: jkblackburn@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Lab, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Moses Ode Odugbo,

  Affiliation Bacterial Research Division, National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria

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• Matthew Van Ert,

  Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Bob O’Shea,

  Affiliation MRI Global, Palm Bay, Florida, United States of America

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• Jocelyn Mullins,

  Affiliation Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Lab, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Vincent Perrenten,

  Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

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• Angaya Maho,

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Recherches Vétérinaires et Zootechniques, N’Djaména, Chad

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• Martin Hugh-Jones,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Ted Hadfield

  Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, MRI Global, Palm Bay, Florida, United States of America

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