Human-pathogenic relapsing fever Borrelia found in bats from Central China phylogenetically clustered together with relapsing fever borreliae reported in the New World

• Ze-Min Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ze-Min Li, Xiao Xiao, Chuan-Min Zhou

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

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Xiao Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ze-Min Li, Xiao Xiao, Chuan-Min Zhou

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology Research, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Chuan-Min Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ze-Min Li, Xiao Xiao, Chuan-Min Zhou

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Jian-Xiao Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Xingtai Third Hospital, Xingtai, Hebei, China

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• Xiao-Lan Gu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Li-Zhu Fang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Bin-Yan Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Lian-Rong Wang ,

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: lianrong@whu.edu.cn (LRW); yuxuejie@whu.edu.cn (XJY); 00033074@whu.edu.cn (HJH)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1669-6340

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• Xue-Jie Yu ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lianrong@whu.edu.cn (LRW); yuxuejie@whu.edu.cn (XJY); 00033074@whu.edu.cn (HJH)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2665-3811

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• Hui-Ju Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lianrong@whu.edu.cn (LRW); yuxuejie@whu.edu.cn (XJY); 00033074@whu.edu.cn (HJH)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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