About the Authors
- Brian T. Backstedt
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Contributed equally to this work with: Brian T. Backstedt, Ozlem Buyuktanir
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Ozlem Buyuktanir
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Contributed equally to this work with: Brian T. Backstedt, Ozlem Buyuktanir
Current address: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Janet Lindow
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Elsio A. Wunder Jr.
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Mitermayer G. Reis
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Sahar Usmani-Brown
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Affiliation L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Michel Ledizet
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Affiliation L2 Diagnostics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Albert Ko
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Utpal Pal
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* E-mail: upal@umd.edu
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
L2 Diagnostics provided support in the form of salaries for authors SUB and ML as well as AK and UP through subcontracts with Yale University and the University of Maryland, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK ML UP. Performed the experiments: BB OB JL EW SB MR. Analyzed the data: BB OB JL EW SB MR AK ML UP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB OB JL EW SB MR AK ML UP. Wrote the paper: BB OB JL EW SB MR AK ML UP.