Development of NanoLuc-PEST expressing Leishmania mexicana as a new drug discovery tool for axenic- and intramacrophage-based assays

• Sarah L. Berry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Berry, Hamza Hameed

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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• Hamza Hameed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Berry, Hamza Hameed

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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• Anna Thomason,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, Current address: School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

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• Marissa L. Maciej-Hulme,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Nephrology, Geert Grooteplein 10, GA Nijmegan, The Netherlands

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• Somaia Saif Abou-Akkada,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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• Paul Horrocks,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3981-0732

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• Helen P. Price

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

  * E-mail: h.price@keele.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-4390

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