DNA barcodes corroborating identification of mosquito species and multiplex real-time PCR differentiating Culex pipiens complex and Culex torrentium in Iran

• Nariman Shahhosseini ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nariman.shahhosseini.1@ulaval.ca

  Affiliations Département de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8827-7191

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• Mohammad Hassan Kayedi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Department of Parasitology, Khorramabad, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0921-1050

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• Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat,

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

  Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Tehran, Iran

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• Trina Racine,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6370-8661

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• Gary P. Kobinger,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Tehran, Iran

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