A single test approach for accurate and sensitive detection and taxonomic characterization of Trypanosomes by comprehensive analysis of internal transcribed spacer 1 amplicons

• Alex Kiarie Gaithuma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

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

  * E-mail: kiariegaithuma@gmail.com (AKG); junya@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (JY); sugimoto@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (CS)

  Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-0859

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• Junya Yamagishi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kiariegaithuma@gmail.com (AKG); junya@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (JY); sugimoto@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (CS)

  Affiliations Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, GI-CORE, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Axel Martinelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations GI-CORE, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Kyoko Hayashida ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ KH, NK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Naoko Kawai ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ KH, NK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Megasari Marsela ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ KH, NK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Chihiro Sugimoto

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: kiariegaithuma@gmail.com (AKG); junya@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (JY); sugimoto@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (CS)

  Affiliations Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, GI-CORE, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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