Comparison of genovars and Chlamydia trachomatis infection loads in ocular samples from children in two distinct cohorts in Sudan and Morocco

• Ehsan Ghasemian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1019-6572

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• Aleksandra Inic-Kanada,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7854-3812

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• Astrid Collingro,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4100-832X

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• Lamiss Mejdoubi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1639-9055

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• Hadeel Alchalabi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Darja Keše,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8961-0678

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• Balgesa Elkheir Elshafie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Jaouad Hammou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7535-7520

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• Talin Barisani-Asenbauer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: talin.barisani@meduniwien.ac.at

  Affiliation Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8661-9183

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