Suitability of current typing procedures to identify epidemiologically linked human Giardia duodenalis isolates

• Andreas Woschke,

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

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit for Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Laboratory of Innate Immunity, Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

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• Mirko Faber,

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

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-570X

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• Klaus Stark,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Martha Holtfreter,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Frank Mockenhaupt,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité University Medicine and Berlin Institute of Health, Corporate member of Free University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8117-5421

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• Joachim Richter,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité University Medicine and Berlin Institute of Health, Corporate member of Free University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Thomas Regnath,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Enders and Partners, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Ingo Sobottka,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation LADR GmbH, Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum, Geesthacht, Germany

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• Ingrid Reiter-Owona,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Clinic Bonn, Germany

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• Andreas Diefenbach,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Laboratory of Innate Immunity, Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Labor Berlin, Charité - Vivantes GmbH, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9176-9530

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• Petra Gosten-Heinrich,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit for Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2809-5542

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• Johannes Friesen,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MVZ Labor 28, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8632-2988

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• Ralf Ignatius,

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

  Affiliations Laboratory of Innate Immunity, Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, MVZ Labor 28, Berlin, Germany

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• Toni Aebischer,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit for Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Christian Klotz

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

  * E-mail: klotzc@rki.de

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit for Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2609-9654

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