Establishing an external quality assurance scheme for the detection of Orientia tsutsugamushi IgM in clinical samples: Strengthening quality control of scrub typhus diagnosis in Indian laboratories

• Vimal Raj Ratchagadasse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vimal Raj Ratchagadasse, Dinakaran Vasudevan

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

  Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

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• Dinakaran Vasudevan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vimal Raj Ratchagadasse, Dinakaran Vasudevan

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

  Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

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• Ferdinamarie Sharmila Philomenadin,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

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• Haripriya Sivakumar,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

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• Nivedha Devanathan,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

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• Harmanmeet Kaur,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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• Labanya Mukhopadhyay,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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• Rahul Dhodapkar

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

  * E-mail: rahuldhodapkar@gmail.com

  Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-3332

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