Sensitive and less invasive confirmatory diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in Sudan using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)

• Maowia Mukhtar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Sababil S. Ali,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Salah A. Boshara,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Audrey Albertini,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics—FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Séverine Monnerat,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative—DNDi, Geneva, Switzerland

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics—FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Paul Bessell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics—FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Yasuyoshi Mori,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

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• Yutaka Kubota,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

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• Joseph M. Ndung’u,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics—FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Israel Cruz

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: isra.cruz@finddx.org

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics—FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2200-2360

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