Antibody and cytokine levels in visceral leishmaniasis patients with varied parasitemia before, during, and after treatment in patients admitted to Arba Minch General Hospital, southern Ethiopia

• Dagimawie Tadesse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dagimawie Tadesse, Asrat Hailu

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

  * E-mail: dagimawie@yahoo.com (DT); hailu_a2004@yahoo.com (AH)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine and Health Science, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3770-1957

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• Alemseged Abdissa ,

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

  ¶‡ AA, MM and TB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3798-5037

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• Mekidim Mekonnen ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AA, MM and TB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Tariku Belay ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AA, MM and TB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1401-824X

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• Asrat Hailu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dagimawie Tadesse, Asrat Hailu

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

  * E-mail: dagimawie@yahoo.com (DT); hailu_a2004@yahoo.com (AH)

  Affiliation Departments of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1717-7959

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