What is the value of testing for tick-borne diseases in cattle in endemic areas? A case study of bovine anaplasmosis

• Valeria Paucar-Quishpe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis applied to Veterinary Science (UREAR-ULiège), Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals & Health (FARAH) Center/Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium, Instituto de Investigación en Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Dirk Berkvens,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Ximena Pérez-Otáñez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth & Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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• Richar Rodríguez-Hidalgo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Darío Cepeda-Bastidas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2527-0969

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• Cecilia Perez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2426-2262

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• Yadira Guasumba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigación en Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Daniela Balseca,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Centro de Biología, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador

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• Kamilo Villareal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador

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• María-Augusta Chávez-Larrea,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis applied to Veterinary Science (UREAR-ULiège), Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals & Health (FARAH) Center/Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y la Agricultura, Grupo de Investigación en Sanidad Animal y Humana (GISAH), Carrera de Ingeniería en Biotecnología, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

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• Sandra Enríquez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigación en Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Jorge Grijalva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Sophie O. Vanwambeke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth & Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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• Claude Saegerman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Claude Saegerman, Lenin Ron-Garrido

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: claude.saegerman@uliege.be, ljron@uce.edu.ec

  Affiliation Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis applied to Veterinary Science (UREAR-ULiège), Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals & Health (FARAH) Center/Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9087-7436

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• Lenin Ron-Garrido

  Contributed equally to this work with: Claude Saegerman, Lenin Ron-Garrido

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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