Assessing insecticide susceptibility, diagnostic dose and time for the sand fly Phlebotomus argentipes, the vector of visceral leishmaniasis in India, using the CDC bottle bioassay

• Rahul Chaubey,

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

  Affiliations Kala-Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Ashish Shukla,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Anurag Kumar Kushwaha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Puja Tiwary,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Shakti Kumar Singh,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Kala-Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

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• Shawna Hennings,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

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• Om Praksh Singh,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Phillip Lawyer,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arthropod Collections, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

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• Edgar Rowton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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• Christine A. Petersen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Iowa, Coralville, Iowa, United States of America

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• Scott A. Bernhardt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scott.bernhardt@usu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9138-8404

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• Shyam Sundar

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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