Low genetic diversity of Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue (TPE) isolated from patients’ ulcers in Namatanai District of Papua New Guinea: Local human population is infected by three TPE genotypes

• Monica Medappa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7486-3058

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• Petra Pospíšilová,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Maria Paula M. Madruga,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Lucy N. John,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations National Department of Health, Aopi Centre, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Camila G. Beiras,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Linda Grillová,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Jan Oppelt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Arka Banerjee,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Marti Vall-Mayans,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Skin NTDs and STI section, Fight Infectious Diseases Foundation, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

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• Oriol Mitjà,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Skin NTDs and STI section, Fight Infectious Diseases Foundation, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Lihir Medical Centre, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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• David Šmajs

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dsmajs@med.muni.cz

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4176-3464

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