Revisiting the taxonomy and evolution of pathogenicity of the genus Leptospira through the prism of genomics

• Antony T. Vincent ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Antony T. Vincent, Olivier Schiettekatte

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

  Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, Quebec, Canada

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• Olivier Schiettekatte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Antony T. Vincent, Olivier Schiettekatte

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes unit, Paris, France, Université Paris Diderot, Ecole doctorale BioSPC, Paris, France

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• Cyrille Goarant,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Nouméa, Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Nouméa, New Caledonia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0690-9464

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• Vasantha Kumari Neela,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Serdang, Malaysia

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• Eve Bernet,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, Quebec, Canada, Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes unit, Paris, France

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• Roman Thibeaux,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Nouméa, Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Nouméa, New Caledonia

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• Nabilah Ismail,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Universiti Sains Malaysia, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Kubang Kerian, Malaysia

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• Mohd Khairul Nizam Mohd Khalid,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7200-3102

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• Fairuz Amran,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Toshiyuki Masuzawa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Chiba Institute of Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, Choshi, Japan

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• Ryo Nakao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hokkaido University, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Parasitology, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3105-7603

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• Anissa Amara Korba,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur d’Alger, Algeria

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• Pascale Bourhy ,

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

  ¶‡ PB, FJV and MP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes unit, Paris, France

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• Frederic J. Veyrier ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ PB, FJV and MP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, Quebec, Canada

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• Mathieu Picardeau

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mathieu.picardeau@pasteur.fr

  ¶‡ PB, FJV and MP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes unit, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-5579

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