Human immune response against salivary antigens of Simulium damnosum s.l.: A new epidemiological marker for exposure to blackfly bites in onchocerciasis endemic areas

• Laura Willen ,

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

  * E-mail: laura.willen@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-8621

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• Maria-Gloria Basáñez,

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

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Vit Dvorak,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5636-7483

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• Francis B. D. Veriegh,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, CSIR-Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana

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• Frank T. Aboagye,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, CSIR-Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-9789

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• Bright Idun,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, CSIR-Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana

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• Maha Elhadi Osman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Commission for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, National Centre for Research, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Mike Y. Osei-Atweneboana,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, CSIR-Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8541-5015

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• Orin Courtenay,

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

  Affiliation Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research and School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0188-6929

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• Petr Volf

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

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1790-1123

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