Detection and phylogenetic analysis of kinetoplast DNA of Leishmania infantum infected humans, domestic dogs and sandflies in Northwest Iran

• Hamed Behniafar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology, Sarab Faculty of Medical Sciences, Sarab, Iran, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Niloofar Taghipour,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Adel Spotin,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3009-9537

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• Zabih Zare,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Seyyed Javad Seyyed Tabaei,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Elham Kazemirad,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Vahideh Moin Vaziri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vahideh Moin Vaziri, Mehdi Mohebali

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vmvaziri@gmail.com, v.vaziri@sbmu.ac.ir (VMV); mohebali@tums.ac.ir (MM)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8037-1458

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• Mehdi Mohebali

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vahideh Moin Vaziri, Mehdi Mohebali

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vmvaziri@gmail.com, v.vaziri@sbmu.ac.ir (VMV); mohebali@tums.ac.ir (MM)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Research Center for Endemic Parasites of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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