Advancing Mycobacterium leprae transmission research: Insights from the R2STOP fund

• Marta Sólveig Palmeirim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4709-2489

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• Annemieke Geluk,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Bouke C. de Jong,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Sofie M. Braet,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Kevin R. Macaluso,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

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• JoAnn M. Tufariello,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Mallika Lavania,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, India, Stanley Browne Research Laboratory, The Leprosy Mission Trust India, New Delhi, India

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• Itu Singh,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Stanley Browne Research Laboratory, The Leprosy Mission Trust India, New Delhi, India

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• Rahul Sharma,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Advanta Genetics, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

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• Pushpendra Singh,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, India, Model Rural Health Research Unit, Badoni, Datia, India

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• Peter Steinmann

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

  * E-mail: peter.steinmann@swisstph.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-3019

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