Multiplex PCR assay to detect high risk lineages of Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A

• Fahad Khokhar,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5959-0680

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• Derek Pickard,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Zoe Dyson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Junaid Iqbal,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Agila Pragasam,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Jobin Jacob John,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Balaji Veeraraghavan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Farah Qamar,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Gordon Dougan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, The Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Hilary MacQueen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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• Sushila Rigas,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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• Mark Holmes,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Ankur Mutreja

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

  * E-mail: am872@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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