Divergent evolution of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in India: An update from National Diphtheria Surveillance network

• Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi, Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8667-7132

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• Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi, Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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• Dhivya Murugan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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• Ranjini Ranjan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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• Vikas Gautam,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5565-048X

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• Prashanth Gupta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6925-3546

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• Jaichand Johnson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation State Public Health Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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• Naresh Chand Sharma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Diseases Hospital, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-7039

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• Ankur Mutreja,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Delhi-NCR, India

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• Pradeep Haldar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-9396

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• Arun Kumar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-1585

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• Pankaj Bhatnagar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4551-4577

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• Lucky Sangal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Balaji Veeraraghavan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vbalaji@cmcvellore.ac.in

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-4257

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