Xenopsylla buxtoni fleas as a dominant species harboring multiple infections of Wolbachia lineages in the ancient plague epicenters of Iran

• Shahin Seidi,

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

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, WHO Collaborating Center for Vector-Borne Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Iran

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• Ehsan Mostafavi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, WHO Collaborating Center for Vector-Borne Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Iran

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• Abbasali Raz,

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

  Affiliation Malaria and Vector Research Group, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Fateh Karimian,

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

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Fariba Khanzadeh,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

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• Zeynab Hayati,

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

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Naseh Maleki-Ravasan

  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: naseh_maleki@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7209-5908

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