About the Authors

Elfadil Abass

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Durria Mansour

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Ahfad Biomedical Research Laboratory (ABRL), School of Health Sciences, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

Zaki Abdalla

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory and Blood Bank Administration, Ministry of Health, Gedaref, Sudan

Hassan Altaher

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Mahmoud Abdalla Idris Medical Compound, Gedaref Teaching Hospital, Ministry of Health, Gedaref, Sudan

Mootaz Sliman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Mahmoud Abdalla Idris Medical Compound, Gedaref Teaching Hospital, Ministry of Health, Gedaref, Sudan

Hussam Osman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Liwa College, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Rabie Ali Babiker

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gedaref, Gedaref, Sudan

Mohamed Salah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kassala University, Kassala, Sudan

Elmohaned Omer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Mahmoud Abdalla Idris Medical Compound, Gedaref Teaching Hospital, Ministry of Health, Gedaref, Sudan

Elwaleed Elamin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Alzaeem Alazhari University, Khartoum, Sudan

Alexander Visekruna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Ulrich Steinhoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Steinhoff, Rouzbeh Mahdavi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ulrich.steinhoff@staff.uni-marburg.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Rouzbeh Mahdavi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Steinhoff, Rouzbeh Mahdavi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: U.S. and R.M. are inventors on a patent application related to the use of rKLi8.3 that has been filed by the Philipps-University Marburg (EP22152398.8). The title of patent application: Diagnostic test for high sensitive detection of antibodies from visceral Leishmaniasis patients.