Meta-taxonomic analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic gut flora in stool samples from visceral leishmaniasis cases and endemic controls in Bihar State India

• Rachael Lappan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• Cajsa Classon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Shashi Kumar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Om Prakash Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2146-8107

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• Ricardo V. de Almeida,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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• Jaya Chakravarty,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Poonam Kumari,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Sangeeta Kansal,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Shyam Sundar ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Jenefer M. Blackwell

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jenefer.blackwell@telethonkids.org.au

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0784-7277

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