Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmission in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil

• Amanda N. B. Fontes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology Applied to Mycobacteria, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Luana N. G. C. Lima,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Rosa M. S. Mota,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Rosa L. F. Almeida,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program of Public Health, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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• Maria A. Pontes,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Reference Center on Dermatology Dona Libânia, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Heitor de S. Gonçalves,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Reference Center on Dermatology Dona Libânia, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Cristiane C. Frota,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Varalakshmi D. Vissa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

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• Patrick J. Brennan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

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• Ricardo J. P. S. Guimaraes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Geoprocessing, Evandro Chagas Institute, Belém, Brazil

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• Carl Kendall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, United States, Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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• Ligia R. F. S. Kerr,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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• Philip N. Suffys

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

  * E-mail: psuffys@gmail.com

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology Applied to Mycobacteria, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mycobacteriology Unit, Tropical Institute of Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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