Xenosurveillance reflects traditional sampling techniques for the identification of human pathogens: A comparative study in West Africa

• Joseph R. Fauver ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph R. Fauver, James Weger-Lucarelli

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

  * E-mail: josephfauver@wustl.edu

  Current address: Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8099-2991

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• James Weger-Lucarelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph R. Fauver, James Weger-Lucarelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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

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• Lawrence S. Fakoli III,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Charlesville, Liberia

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• Kpehe Bolay,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Charlesville, Liberia

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• Fatorma K. Bolay,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Charlesville, Liberia

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• Joseph W. Diclaro II,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt

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• Doug E. Brackney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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

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• Brian D. Foy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-203X

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• Mark D. Stenglein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Gregory D. Ebel

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

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

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