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Joel Leonard Nicholas Barratt, E-mail: nsk9@cdc.gov
J. L. N. B.: study conception, study design, data analysis, prepared figures, prepared tables, wrote original drafts, designed bioinformatic workflows, wrote R code, taxonomic summaries and reviewed/prepared final drafts. J. S.: data analysis, prepared figures, wrote and contributed to sections on retrospective epidemiologic investigation and wrote R code. A. S.: epidemiologic data analysis conception, reviewed and edited drafts. T. R. and K. H.: wet lab work, data generation, reviewed and edited drafts. S. G. H. S.: morphologic data collection and analysis, provided consult on taxonomic nomenclature, reviewed and edited drafts. M. J. A.: reviewed and edited manuscript drafts and provision of isolates. Y. Q.: edited and reviewed manuscript drafts, generated source data and obtained source material. V. C.: edited and reviewed manuscript drafts. Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the CDC.
The authors acknowledge the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria for their time and use of resources in support of this work. The authors also acknowledge the support, through training opportunities, of the Parasitic Diseases Branch at CDC, ORAU, and the Rollins School of Public Health (Emory University) in support of fellows (J. S., T. R.).
The authors acknowledge the CDC's Office of Advanced Molecular Detection for their financial support of this work.
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