Serological evidence of Borrelia turicatae in Raccoons (Procyon lotor) from an endemic focus of tick-borne relapsing fever in Mexico

• Jose A. Hernández Martínez,

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

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, México

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• Valeria Leal-Sepúlveda,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-SIN, Guasave, Sinaloa, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-9728

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• Alan A. Zavala-Norzagaray,

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

  Affiliation Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-SIN, Guasave, Sinaloa, México

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• Emilio Rendón-Franco,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Producción Agrícola y Animal, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco, Ciudad de México, México

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• César P. Ley-Quiñonez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-SIN, Guasave, Sinaloa, México

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• Patricio Pellegrini-Hernández,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Management Unit (Macochín), El Fuerte, Sinaloa, México

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• Job E. Lopez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4802-5779

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• J. Antonio Ibarra

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

  * E-mail: jaig19@gmail.com, jibarrag@ipn.mx

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5016-0622

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