Navigating cross-reactivity and host species effects in a serological assay: A case study of the microscopic agglutination test for Leptospira serology

• Riley O. Mummah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Riley O. Mummah, Ana C. R. Gomez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rom5173@ucla.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-3483

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• Ana C. R. Gomez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Riley O. Mummah, Ana C. R. Gomez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Angela H. Guglielmino,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Benny Borremans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Wildlife Health Ecology Research Organization, San Diego, California, United States of America, Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Renee L. Galloway,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Katherine C. Prager,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• James O. Lloyd-Smith

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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