Long-read whole genome sequencing and comparative analysis of six strains of the human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi

• Elizabeth M. Batty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-452X

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• Suwittra Chaemchuen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Stuart Blacksell,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Allen L. Richards,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation US Naval Medicine Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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• Daniel Paris,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Faculty of Medicine, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Rory Bowden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Caroline Chan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, 1305 O’Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

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• Ramkumar Lachumanan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, 1305 O’Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

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• Nicholas Day,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Peter Donnelly,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Swaine Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0107-2861

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• Jeanne Salje

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

  * E-mail: jeanne.salje@ndm.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Science, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5802-4580

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