Usefulness of next-generation sequencing for laboratory diagnosis of rickettsiosis

• Fanfan Xing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong ‐ Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8233-5127

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• Chaowen Deng,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong ‐ Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Jinyue Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong ‐ Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Yanfei Yuan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong ‐ Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Zhendong Luo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, The University of Hong Kong ‐ Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Simon K. F. Lo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong ‐ Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Susanna K. P. Lau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skplau@hku.hk (SKPL); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

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• Patrick C. Y. Woo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skplau@hku.hk (SKPL); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China, Doctoral Program in Translational Medicine and Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Research Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-1832

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