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About the Authors:
Cedar L. Mitchell
Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Current address: Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Affiliation: The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana
Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Rebecca E. Colman
Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing - review & editing
Current address: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Affiliation: The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Joseph Busch
Roles Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Heidie Hornstra-O’Neill
Roles Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Paul S. Keim
Roles Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
David M. Wagner
Roles Funding acquisition, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Minoarisoa Rajerison
Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected] (MR); [email protected] (DNB)
Affiliation: Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Dawn N. Birdsell
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected] (MR); [email protected] (DNB)
Affiliation: The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of AmericaAbstract
Background
Genetic analysis of pathogenic organisms is a useful tool for linking human cases together and/or to potential environmental sources. The resulting data can also provide information on evolutionary patterns within a targeted species and phenotypic traits. However, the instruments often used to generate genotyping data, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), can be expensive and sometimes require advanced technologies to implement. This places many...