Molecular detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato – An analytical comparison of real-time PCR protocols from five different Scandinavian laboratories

• Malin Lager ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: malin.lager@rjl.se

  Affiliations Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9904-6898

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• Maximilian Faller,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany

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• Peter Wilhelmsson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Clinical Microbiology, Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

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• Vivian Kjelland,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, Research Unit, Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Åshild Andreassen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease Control, Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Rimtas Dargis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark

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• Hanne Quarsten,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Ram Dessau,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark

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• Volker Fingerle,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany

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• Gabriele Margos,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany

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• Sølvi Noraas,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Katharina Ornstein,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medicine, Skånevård Kryh, Region Skåne, Sweden

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• Ann-Cathrine Petersson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Lund, Sweden

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• Andreas Matussek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology, Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Sweden, Karolinska University Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Per-Eric Lindgren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Clinical Microbiology, Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

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• Anna J. Henningsson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

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