Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) scheme for Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue: Application to yaws in Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

• Charmie Godornes,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Lorenzo Giacani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Alyssa E. Barry,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Population Health and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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• Oriol Mitja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clinic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Division of Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Lihir Medical Center, International SOS-Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

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• Sheila A. Lukehart

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lukehart@uw.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9778-3301

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