Development and validation of a quantitative PCR for the detection of Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis)

• Sarah M. Coker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-6109

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• Erin K. Box,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Natalie Stilwell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Elizabeth A. Thiele,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America

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• James A. Cotton,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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• Ellen Haynes,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Michael J. Yabsley ,

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

  * E-mail: myabsley@uga.edu (MJY); ccleve@uga.edu (CAC)

  Affiliations Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2452-5015

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• Christopher A. Cleveland

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

  * E-mail: myabsley@uga.edu (MJY); ccleve@uga.edu (CAC)

  Affiliations Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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