Multilocus microsatellite typing (MLMT) reveals host-related population structure in Leishmania infantum from northeastern Italy

• Gianluca Rugna ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gianluca Rugna, Elena Carra

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: gianluca.rugna@izsler.it

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7437-1929

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• Elena Carra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gianluca Rugna, Elena Carra

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-4569

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• Federica Bergamini,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

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• Mattia Calzolari,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

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• Daniela Salvatore,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy

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• Francesco Corpus,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

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• William Gennari,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Dipartimento Integrati Interaziendali Medicina di Laboratorio e Anatomia Patologica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Policlinico di Modena, Italy

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• Raffaella Baldelli,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, Italy

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• Massimo Fabbi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

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• Silvano Natalini,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale, Bologna, Italy

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• Fabrizio Vitale,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Leishmaniasis (C.Re.Na.L.), Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy

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• Stefania Varani ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SV and GM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Unit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies (CRREM), St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy

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• Giuseppe Merialdi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SV and GM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy

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