Development of a sensitive molecular diagnostic assay for detecting Borrelia burgdorferi DNA from the blood of Lyme disease patients by digital PCR

• Srirupa Das ,

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

  * E-mail: Srirupa.das@nuvancehealth.org

  Affiliations Department of Pathology Research, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America, Rudy L. Ruggles Biomedical Research Institute, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8040

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• Denise Hammond-McKibben,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology Research, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America, Rudy L. Ruggles Biomedical Research Institute, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America

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• Donna Guralski,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology Research, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America, Rudy L. Ruggles Biomedical Research Institute, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America

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• Sandra Lobo,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rudy L. Ruggles Biomedical Research Institute, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America

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• Paul N. Fiedler

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Pathology Research, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America, Rudy L. Ruggles Biomedical Research Institute, Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT, United States of America

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