Comparing microbiological and molecular diagnostic tools for the surveillance of anthrax

• Sunday Ochonu Ochai ,

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

  * E-mail: s.o.ochaijr@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Antimicrobial Research Unit, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions, Copenhagen S, 2300, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-9537

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• Ayesha Hassim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

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• Edgar H. Dekker,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the State Veterinarian, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Government of South Africa, Skukuza, South Africa

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• Thuto Magome,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Microbiology, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• Kgaugelo Edward Lekota,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Microbiology, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• S. Marcus Makgabo,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), Florida Campus, Roodepoort, 1709, South Africa

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• Lin-Mari de Klerk-Loris,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Research Unit, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Louis O. van Schalkwyk,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Office of the State Veterinarian, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Government of South Africa, Skukuza, South Africa, Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany

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• Pauline L. Kamath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

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• Wendy C. Turner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0302-1646

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• Henriette van Heerden

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

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