A hotspot of Toxoplasma gondii Africa 1 lineage in Benin: How new genotypes from West Africa contribute to understand the parasite genetic diversity worldwide

• Azra Hamidović ,

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

  * E-mail: azra.hamidovic@unilim.fr

  Affiliation INSERM, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, IRD, U1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, GEIST, Limoges, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7293-1953

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• Jonas Raoul Etougbétché,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UAC, EPAC, Laboratoire de Recherche en Biologie Appliquée, Unité de Recherche sur les Invasions Biologiques, Cotonou, Benin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1342-246X

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• Arétas Babatounde Nounnagnon Tonouhewa,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Research Unit (URMaT), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9363-5168

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• Lokman Galal,

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

  Affiliation INSERM, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, IRD, U1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, GEIST, Limoges, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-3849

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• Gauthier Dobigny,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations UAC, EPAC, Laboratoire de Recherche en Biologie Appliquée, Unité de Recherche sur les Invasions Biologiques, Cotonou, Benin, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, IRD, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, MUSE, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8066-9588

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• Gualbert Houémènou,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation UAC, EPAC, Laboratoire de Recherche en Biologie Appliquée, Unité de Recherche sur les Invasions Biologiques, Cotonou, Benin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6930-8578

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• Honoré Da Zoclanclounon,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Expérimentation Animale, Unité de Biologie Humaine, Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6812-1640

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• Richard Amagbégnon,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratoire de biologie médicale, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de la Mère et de l’Enfant Lagune (CHU-MEL), Cotonou, Bénin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-5107

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• Anatole Laleye,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Expérimentation Animale, Unité de Biologie Humaine, Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

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• Nadine Fievet,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation UMR216-MERIT, IRD, Université Paris-5, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Centre d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Paludisme Associé à la Grossesse et à l’Enfance (CERPAGE), Cotonou, Bénin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-9794

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• Sylvain Piry,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, IRD, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, MUSE, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-7555

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• Karine Berthier,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, IRD, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, MUSE, Montpellier, France

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• Hilda Fátima Jesus Pena,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0629-2166

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• Marie-Laure Dardé,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSERM, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, IRD, U1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, GEIST, Limoges, France, Centre National de Référence Toxoplasmose/Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center, CHU Limoges, Limoges, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-4569

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• Aurélien Mercier

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

  Affiliations INSERM, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, IRD, U1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, GEIST, Limoges, France, Centre National de Référence Toxoplasmose/Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center, CHU Limoges, Limoges, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4332-5879

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