The role of cofeeding arthropods in the transmission of Rickettsia felis

• Chanida Fongsaran,

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

  Current address: Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Krit Jirakanwisal,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

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• Natthida Tongluan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

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• Allison Latour,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Sean Healy,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Rebecca C. Christofferson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Kevin R. Macaluso

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

  * E-mail: kmacaluso@southalabama.edu

  Affiliations Vector-Borne Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8537-6100

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