Detection of Leishmania metacyclogenesis within the sand fly vector employing a real-time PCR for sherp gene expression: A tool for Leishmania surveillance and transmission potential

• Chukwunonso O. Nzelu ,

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

  * E-mail: chukwunonso.nzelu@ucalgary.ca (CON); ncpeters@ucalgary.ca (NCP)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Somayeh Bahrami,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

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• Phillip G. Lawyer,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, MLBM, Provo, Utah, United States of America

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• Nathan C. Peters

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chukwunonso.nzelu@ucalgary.ca (CON); ncpeters@ucalgary.ca (NCP)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-9581

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