Enhanced surveillance for tick-borne rickettsiosis and ehrlichiosis in North Carolina: Protocol and preliminary results

• Lauryn Ursery,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3718-5794

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• Odai Mansour,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3291-1330

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• Haley Abernathy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Emily Wichmann,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Allie Yackley,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alexis Siegler,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Dana Giandomenico,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Carl Williams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alexis Barbarin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Michael H. Reiskind,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ross M. Boyce

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roboyce@med.unc.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9489-6324

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