Comparison of stool collection and storage on Whatman FTA Elute cards versus frozen stool for enteropathogen detection using the TaqMan Array Card PCR assay

• Tahaniyat Lalani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tlalani@idcrp.org

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, United States of America, Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9361-2991

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• Michele D. Tisdale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, United States of America, Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA, United States of America

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• Jie Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

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• Indrani Mitra,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, United States of America, Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Cliff Philip,

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

  Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Kericho, Kenya

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• Elizabeth Odundo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Unit Kenya, Kericho, Kenya

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• Faviola Reyes,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joint Task Force Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras

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• Mark P. Simons,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

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• Jamie A. Fraser,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, United States of America, Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Emma Hutley,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Military Medicine, Royal Centre for Defense Medicine, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Patrick Connor,

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

  Affiliation Department of Military Medicine, Royal Centre for Defense Medicine, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Brett E. Swierczewski,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute for the Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Eric Houpt,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

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• David R. Tribble,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, United States of America

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• Mark S. Riddle

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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