Comparative analysis of the microbiota of sand fly vectors of Leishmania major and L. tropica in a mixed focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in southeast Tunisia; ecotype shapes the bacterial community structure

• Ahmed Tabbabi,

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

  Affiliation Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Daiki Mizushima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Daisuke S. Yamamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Elyes Zhioua,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit of Vector Ecology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Hirotomo Kato

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hirok@jichi.ac.jp

  Affiliation Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5429-9536

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