Molecular investigation of Coxiella burnetii and Francisella tularensis infection in ticks in northern, western, and northwestern Iran

• Saber Esmaeili,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, KabudarAhang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-1737

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• Mina Latifian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, KabudarAhang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Ahmad Mahmoudi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4698-137X

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• Ahmad Ghasemi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, KabudarAhang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Microbiology, Research Center of Reference Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

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• Ali Mohammadi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health and National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Alireza Mordadi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Seyyed Payman Ziapour,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Zoonoses, Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Amol, Mazandaran, Iran

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• Saied Reza Naddaf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Ehsan Mostafavi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mostafaviehsan@gmail.com

  Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, KabudarAhang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-517X

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