About the Authors
- Berta Victoria
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Contributed equally to this work with: Berta Victoria, Ahmed Ahmed
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
- Ahmed Ahmed
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Contributed equally to this work with: Berta Victoria, Ahmed Ahmed
Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Richard L. Zuerner
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Affiliation Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Niyaz Ahmed
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Affiliation Pathogen Evolution Laboratory, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India
- Dieter M. Bulach
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Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Javier Quinteiro
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
- Rudy A. Hartskeerl
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* E-mail: r.hartskeerl@kit.nl
Affiliation WHO/FAO/OIE and National Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BV AAA RZ JQ RAH. Performed the experiments: BV AAA RZ. Analyzed the data: NA DB JQ. Wrote the paper: BV AAA RZ NA JQ RAH.