Evaluation of the analytical and diagnostic performance of a digital droplet polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) assay to detect Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in blood samples

• Juan David Ramírez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan David Ramírez, Robert Butcher

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

  * E-mail: juand.ramirez@urosario.edu.co

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1344-9312

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• Giovanny Herrera,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Carolina Hernández,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Lissa Cruz-Saavedra,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-0686

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• Marina Muñoz,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Carolina Flórez,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de Parasitología, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Robert Butcher

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan David Ramírez, Robert Butcher

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

  Affiliation Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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