First assessment of plague in terrestrial small mammals and fleas from Makira Natural Park and surroundings, North-eastern Madagascar

• Beza Ramasindrazana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Beza Ramasindrazana, Mireille Harimalala, Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Vie et de l’Environnement, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Biological Resource Center, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8838-949X

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• Mireille Harimalala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Beza Ramasindrazana, Mireille Harimalala, Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Vie et de l’Environnement, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Medical Entomology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Beza Ramasindrazana, Mireille Harimalala, Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala

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

  Affiliations Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Vie et de l’Environnement, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Cynthia Haingotiana Martin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Département d’Enseignement des Sciences et Médecine Vétérinaire, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, UMR ASTRE, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Lanto Andrianarijaona Maminirina,

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

  Affiliations Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Vie et de l’Environnement, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Sylvie Claudia Raritahiry,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Resource Center, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Johan Michaux,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratoire de génétique de la conservation, Institut de Botanique, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, UMR ASTRE, Université de Montpellier, French International Research Centre for Agricultural Development, National Institute for Agricultural Research, Montpellier, France, French International Research Centre for Agricultural Research, UMR ASTRE, Montpellier, France

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• Minoarisoa Rajerison,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Vie et de l’Environnement, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Julie Linchant,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), MaMaBay Program, Maroantsetra, Madagascar

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• Pierre Walter,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), MaMaBay Program, Maroantsetra, Madagascar

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• Daouda Kassié,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, UMR ASTRE, Antananarivo, Madagascar, French International Research Centre for Agricultural Research, UMR ASTRE, Montpellier, France

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• Hélène Guis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HG, LK and FJ are last senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, UMR ASTRE, Antananarivo, Madagascar, French International Research Centre for Agricultural Research, UMR ASTRE, Montpellier, France

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• Lucy Keatts ,

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

  ¶‡ HG, LK and FJ are last senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Ferran Jori

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

  * E-mail: ferran.jori@cirad.fr

  ¶‡ HG, LK and FJ are last senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations UMR ASTRE, Université de Montpellier, French International Research Centre for Agricultural Development, National Institute for Agricultural Research, Montpellier, France, French International Research Centre for Agricultural Research, UMR ASTRE, Montpellier, France, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5451-7767

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