Targeting a highly repetitive genomic sequence for sensitive and specific molecular detection of the filarial parasite Mansonella perstans from human blood and mosquitoes

• Nils Pilotte ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nils.pilotte@quinnipiac.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8447-7425

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• Tamara Thomas,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael F. Zulch,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Allison R. Sirois,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Corrado Minetti,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Lisa J. Reimer,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Steven A. Williams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lori J. Saunders

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

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