Co-infection of tick-borne bacterial pathogens in ticks in Inner Mongolia, China

• Dan Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Wulantuya

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Wulantuya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Wulantuya

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Hongxia Fan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Xiaona Li,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Fangchao Li,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Ting Gao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Xuhong Yin,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Zitong Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Minzhi Cao,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Hiroki Kawabata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology-I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kozue Sato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology-I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Norio Ohashi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Shuji Ando,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Virology-I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Gaowa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: melody_gaowa@163.com

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Tick-borne Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Hetao, Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7428-4101

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