Whole genome sequence analysis of Salmonella Typhi provides evidence of phylogenetic linkage between cases of typhoid fever in Santiago, Chile in the 1980s and 2010–2016

• Mailis Maes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mailis Maes, Michael J. Sikorski

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

  * E-mail: mm2032@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0266-6557

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• Michael J. Sikorski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mailis Maes, Michael J. Sikorski

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Megan E. Carey,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Ellen E. Higginson,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Zoe A. Dyson,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Alda Fernandez,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Bacteriologia, Subdepartamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Departamento de Laboratorio Biomédico, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile (ISP), Santiago, Chile

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• Pamela Araya,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Bacteriologia, Subdepartamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Departamento de Laboratorio Biomédico, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile (ISP), Santiago, Chile

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• Sharon M. Tennant,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Stephen Baker,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Rosanna Lagos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro para Vacunas en Desarollo-Chile (CVD-Chile), Hospital de Niños Roberto del Rio, Santiago, Chile

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• Juan Carlos Hormazábal,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bacteriologia, Subdepartamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Departamento de Laboratorio Biomédico, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile (ISP), Santiago, Chile

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• Myron M. Levine ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MML and GD also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gordon Dougan

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MML and GD also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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