Understanding leptospirosis eco-epidemiology by environmental DNA metabarcoding of irrigation water from two agro-ecological regions of Sri Lanka

• Chandika D. Gamage ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandika D. Gamage, Yukuto Sato

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0974-5730

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• Yukuto Sato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandika D. Gamage, Yukuto Sato

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

  * E-mail: yuksato@lab.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (YS); claudia@med.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (CT)

  Affiliation Center for Strategic Research Project, Organization for Research Promotion, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

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• Ryosuke Kimura,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0100-273X

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• Tetsu Yamashiro,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-3287

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• Claudia Toma

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yuksato@lab.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (YS); claudia@med.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (CT)

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9852-1722

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