Genetic Affinities within a Large Global Collection of Pathogenic Leptospira: Implications for Strain Identification and Molecular Epidemiology

• Kishore Nalam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kishore Nalam, Ahmed Ahmed, Sundru Manjulata Devi

  Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

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• Ahmed Ahmed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kishore Nalam, Ahmed Ahmed, Sundru Manjulata Devi

  Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Sundru Manjulata Devi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kishore Nalam, Ahmed Ahmed, Sundru Manjulata Devi

  Affiliation Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India

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• Paolo Francalacci,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology and Evolutionary Genetics, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Mumtaz Baig,

  Affiliation Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati, Maharashtra, India

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• Leonardo A. Sechi,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Rudy A. Hartskeerl,

  Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Niyaz Ahmed

  * E-mail: niyazSL@uohyd.ernet.in

  Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

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