Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia

• Nino Maghradze,

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

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Levan Jugheli,

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

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Sonia Borrell,

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

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Nestani Tukvadze,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Russell R. Kempker,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Henry M. Blumberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Sebastien Gagneux

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sebastien.gagneux@unibas.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7783-9048

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