Multilocus sequence typing reveals diverse known and novel genotypes of Leptospira spp. circulating in Sri Lanka

• Lilani Karunanayake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Department of Bacteriology, Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6014-1671

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• Chandika D. Gamage,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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

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• Chandima P. Gunasekara,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Department of Bacteriology, Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Sajiv De Silva,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Base Hospital, Elpitiya, Sri Lanka

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• Hidemasa Izumiya,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-7402

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• Masatomo Morita,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-0053

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• Devinda S. Muthusinghe,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5137-2408

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• Kumiko Yoshimatsu,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0062-2753

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• Roshan Niloofa,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6972-9858

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• Panduka Karunanayake,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8102-6952

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• Wimalasiri Uluwattage,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Sri Lanka

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• Makoto Ohnishi,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nobuo Koizumi

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

  * E-mail: nkoizumi@niid.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5733-535X

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