Evaluation of Auramine O staining and conventional PCR for leprosy diagnosis: A comparative cross-sectional study from Ethiopia

• Selfu Girma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: selfugirma2@gmail.com (SG); kbobosha@gmail.com (KB)

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1866-0950

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• Charlotte Avanzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-4058

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• Kidist Bobosha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: selfugirma2@gmail.com (SG); kbobosha@gmail.com (KB)

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Kassu Desta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Addis Ababa University, CHS, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Munir H. Idriss,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Philippe Busso,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Yohannes Tsegaye,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Shimelis Nigusse,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ALERT hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tsegaye Hailu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Stewart T. Cole,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Abraham Aseffa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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