About the Authors
- Scott A. Nabity
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Affiliations Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Guilherme S. Ribeiro
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* E-mail: gsribeiro@ufba.br
Affiliations Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- Carolina Lessa Aquino
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Affiliation Bio-Manguinhos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Daniele Takahashi
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Alcinéia Oliveira Damião
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- André H. O. Gonçalves
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Demócrito B. Miranda-Filho
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Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
- Rena Greenwald
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Affiliation Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Medford, New York, United States of America
- Javan Esfandiari
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Affiliation Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Medford, New York, United States of America
- Konstantin P. Lyashchenko
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Affiliation Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Medford, New York, United States of America
- Mitermayer G. Reis
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Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil
- Marco A. Medeiros
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Affiliation Bio-Manguinhos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Albert I. Ko
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Affiliations Centro de Pesquisa de Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Brazil, Yale University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AIK and MGR are holders of the U.S. patent 8,124,110 for the proteins with repetitive bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains present in Leptospira species used as antigens in the DPP assay. JE holds U.S. patent 7,879,597 for the dual path immunoassay device (DPP) evaluated in this study. JE, KPL, and RG are employees of Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc., which developed the DPP assay for leptospirosis and has transferred the DPP technology to the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SAN GSR CLA DT KPL MAM AIK. Performed the experiments: SAN CLA DT AOD AHOG. Analyzed the data: SAN GSR KPL AIK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBMF RG JE KPL MGR MAM AIK. Wrote the paper: SAN GSR KPL. Reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript: SAN GSR CLA DT AOD AHOG DBMF RG JE KPL MGR MAM AIK.