Analysis of D-A locus of tRNA-linked short tandem repeats reveals transmission of Entamoeba histolytica and E. dispar among students in the Thai-Myanmar border region of northwest Thailand

• Urassaya Pattanawong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliations Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Parasitology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4857-1713

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• Chaturong Putaporntip,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Azumi Kakino,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

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• Naoko Yoshida,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Seiki Kobayashi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Surasuk Yanmanee,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8771-6364

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• Somchai Jongwutiwes ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jongwutiwes@gmail.com (SJ); htachiba@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (HT)

  Affiliation Molecular Biology of Malaria and Opportunistic Parasites Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Hiroshi Tachibana

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

  * E-mail: jongwutiwes@gmail.com (SJ); htachiba@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (HT)

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1807-9090

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