Diagnostic method-based underestimation of leptospirosis in clinical and research settings; an experience from a large prospective study in a high endemic setting

• Janith Warnasekara,

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

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

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• Shalka Srimantha,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1678-5140

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• Chamila Kappagoda,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0847-0317

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• Dinesha Jayasundara,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations 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 Senevirathna,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations 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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• Michael Matthias,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7035-7326

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• Suneth Agampodi ,

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

  * E-mail: suneth.agampodi@yale.edu, sunethagampodi@yahoo.com

  ¶‡ These authors are equal senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations 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, School of Medicine, Yale University, 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, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are equal senior authors on this work.

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

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