High genome plasticity and frequent genetic exchange in Leishmania tropica isolates from Afghanistan, Iran and Syria

• Hedvig Glans ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hedvig.glans@ki.se

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Dermatology & Venerology, Dept of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7401-2245

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• Maria Lind Karlberg,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1788-2295

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• Reza Advani,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Maria Bradley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Dermatology & Venerology, Dept of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Erik Alm,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2903-607X

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• Björn Andersson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4624-0259

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• Tim Downing

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

  Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8385-6730

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