Efficient detection of symptomatic and asymptomatic patient samples for Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi infection by multiplex qPCR

• Shekerah Primus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shekerah Primus, Lavoisier Akoolo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Lavoisier Akoolo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shekerah Primus, Lavoisier Akoolo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Samantha Schlachter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Kristine Gedroic,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation The Gedroic Center, Morristown, NJ, United States of America

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• Albert D. Rojtman,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Meridian Health, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ, United States of America

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• Nikhat Parveen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parveeni@njms.rutgers.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0592-0693

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