Direct sequencing of Leishmania donovani from patients in Garissa County, Northern Kenya, reveals a newly emerging intra-specific hybrid genotype

• Vane Kwamboka Omwenga,

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

  Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Africa, Basic Science Laboratory, Kisumu, Kenya, Department of Zoology, Maseno University School of Biological and Physical Science, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Gathii Kimita,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Africa, Basic Science Laboratory, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Damaris Matoke-Muhia,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Biotechnology Research Development (CBRD), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Cyrus Ayieko,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Maseno University School of Biological and Physical Science, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Clement Masakhwe,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Africa, Basic Science Laboratory, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Mohamed Hussein Ibrahim,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Health, Garissa County Referral Hospital, Garissa County Kenya

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• Senne Heeren,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Molecular Parasitology Unit, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Jean-Claude Dujardin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Molecular Parasitology Unit, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Pieter Monsieurs,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Trypanosoma Unit, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Malgorzata Anna Domagalska ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: john.waitumbi@usamru-k.org (JW); mdomagalska@itg.be (MAD)

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Experimental Parasitology Unit, Antwerp, Belgium

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• John Waitumbi

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

  * E-mail: john.waitumbi@usamru-k.org (JW); mdomagalska@itg.be (MAD)

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Africa, Basic Science Laboratory, Kisumu, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2540-4397

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