Evaluating the efficacy of serological testing of clinical specimens collected from patients with suspected brucellosis

• Nannan Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nannan Xu, Chunmei Qu

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ The authors are listed in order of increasing seniority.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Chunmei Qu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nannan Xu, Chunmei Qu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  ¶‡ The authors are listed in order of increasing seniority.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Lintao Sai,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Sai Wen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Lulu Yang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Shanshan Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Hui Yang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Hui Liu ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dahuiliu1981@sina.com (HL); wangg1975@hotmail.com (GW)

  Affiliation Institute of Bacterial Disease, Jinan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan Shandong, China

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• Gang Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dahuiliu1981@sina.com (HL); wangg1975@hotmail.com (GW)

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4584-3859

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