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EB and FP are joint first authors and contributed equally to this work
Contributors EB: coordinated the study, evaluated the immunoblot results, wrote the manuscript; FP: adapted real time PCR and PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism for LGV, analysed data, revised and approved the paper; TM: performed laboratory testing, commented on and approved the paper; ABal: performed laboratory testing, commented on and approved the paper; TE: performed sequence alignment, commented on and approved the paper; KE: provided clinical samples and anamnestic data of Case 1, was involved with establishing clinical diagnosis of Case 1, commented on and approved the paper ABán: provided clinical samples and anamnestic data of Case 2, was involved with establishing clinical diagnosis of Case 2, commented on and approved the paper; MM: provided clinical samples and anamnestic data of Case 3 and Case 4, was involved with establishing clinical diagnosis of Case 3 and Case 4, commented on and approved the paper.
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Competing interests None.
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Ethics approval All the four patients have agreed to work on with their clinical samples during medical examination.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.