Development and evaluation of a droplet digital PCR assay to detect Brucella in human whole blood

• Jiayin Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayin Liu, Zhichun Song, Na Ta

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Wengniute Banner Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Zhichun Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayin Liu, Zhichun Song, Na Ta

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Wengniute Banner Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Na Ta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayin Liu, Zhichun Song, Na Ta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Comprehensive Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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• Guozhong Tian,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Xiaowen Yang,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Hongyan Zhao,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Dongri Piao,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Yu Fan,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Yu Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Hai Jiang

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jianghai@icdc.cn

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracing and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8681-7211

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