Identification and pathogen screening of ectoparasites from companion animals in urban Vientiane, Lao PDR

• Vanheuang Phommadeechack,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

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• Sungsit Sungvornyothin,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Wirichada Pan-Ngum,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Hygiene, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Watthana Theppangna,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Livestock and Fisheries, National Animal Health Laboratory (NAHL), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

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• Koukeo Phommasone,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

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• Elizabeth A. Ashley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Narisara Chantratita,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Matthew T. Robinson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew T. Robinson, Rutcharin Potiwat

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

  * E-mail: matthew.r@tropmedres.ac

  Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1187-2712

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• Rutcharin Potiwat

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew T. Robinson, Rutcharin Potiwat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶Deceased.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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