12 Novel clonal groups of Leptospira infecting humans in multiple contrasting epidemiological contexts in Sri Lanka

• Dinesha Jayasundara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Leptospirosis Research Laboratory, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5573-0268

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• Indika Senavirathna,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Leptospirosis Research Laboratory, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0343-1557

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• Janith Warnasekara,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Leptospirosis Research Laboratory, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-6851

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• Chandika Gamage,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

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

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

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• Sisira Siribaddana,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5821-2557

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• Senanayake Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage Kularatne,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

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

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• Michael Matthias,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Jean-François Mariet,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes unit, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9227-0574

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• Mathieu Picardeau,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology of Spirochetes unit, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-5579

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• Suneth Agampodi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: suneth.agampodi@yale.edu

  Affiliations Leptospirosis Research Laboratory, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-1774

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• Joseph M. Vinetz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8344-2004

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