Exploring the status of brucellosis in pregnant women presented with febrile illness at different healthcare facilities of Vehari and Lodhran zones of Pakistan

• Syed Muhammad Tauseef Shafqat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Syed Muhammad Tauseef Shafqat

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

  * E-mail: muhammadawais@bzu.edu.pk (MMA); tauseefshafqat@yahoo.com (SMTS)

  ¶‡ These authors share the first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations One Health Research Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Sciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Mian Muhammad Awais ,

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

  * E-mail: muhammadawais@bzu.edu.pk (MMA); tauseefshafqat@yahoo.com (SMTS)

  ¶‡ These authors share the first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation One Health Research Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7802-3259

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• Ulas Acaroz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye, Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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• Masood Akhtar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation One Health Research Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Abdul Sammad Ali Khan Shirwany,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations One Health Research Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, University Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Imran Rasool,

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

  Affiliation One Health Research Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Naseer Ali Shah

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

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Sciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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