Dipeptidyl peptidase III as a DNA marker to investigate epidemiology and taxonomy of Old World Leishmania species

• Insaf Bel Hadj Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5289-5892

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• Hamed Chouaieb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hamed Chouaieb, Yusr Saadi Ben Aoun

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, Service de parasitologie, EPS Farhat Hached, Faculté de Médecine de Sousse, Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-6113

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• Yusr Saadi Ben Aoun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hamed Chouaieb, Yusr Saadi Ben Aoun

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

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• Emna Harigua-Souiai ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  ¶‡ EHS and HS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

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• Hejer Souguir ,

  Roles Validation

  ¶‡ EHS and HS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-5900

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• Alia Yaacoub,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, Service de parasitologie, EPS Farhat Hached, Faculté de Médecine de Sousse, Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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• Oussaïma El Dbouni,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Rafik Hariri Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Zoubir Harrat,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Eco-épidémiologie Parasitaire et Génétique des Populations, Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, Algiers, Algeria

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• Maowia M. Mukhtar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Bioscience Research Institute, Ibn Sina University, Khartoum, Sudan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2183-5915

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• Moncef Ben Said,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Service de parasitologie, EPS Farhat Hached, Faculté de Médecine de Sousse, Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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• Nabil Haddad,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Vector-Borne Diseases, Faculty of Public Health Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon

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• Akila Fathallah-Mili,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, Service de parasitologie, EPS Farhat Hached, Faculté de Médecine de Sousse, Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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• Ikram Guizani

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

  * E-mail: ikram.Guizani@pasteur.tn

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

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