Gene target selection for loop-mediated isothermal amplification for rapid discrimination of Treponema pallidum subspecies

• Sascha Knauf ,

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

  * E-mail: sknauf@dpz.eu

  Affiliation Work Group Neglected Tropical Diseases, Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz- Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5744-4946

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• Simone Lüert,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Work Group Neglected Tropical Diseases, Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz- Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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• David Šmajs,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Michal Strouhal,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Idrissa S. Chuma,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Work Group Neglected Tropical Diseases, Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz- Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Sieghard Frischmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mast Diagnostica GmbH, Reinfeld, Germany

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• Mohammed Bakheit

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

  Affiliation Mast Diagnostica GmbH, Reinfeld, Germany

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