Leishmaniasis: A new method for confirming cure and detecting asymptomatic infection in patients receiving immunosuppressive treatment for autoimmune disease

• Laura Botana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain, Cardiology Department, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria/Hospital Ramón y Cajal Research Unit (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2652-9880

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• Ana Victoria Ibarra-Meneses,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain

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• Carmen Sanchez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain

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• Belen Matia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

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• Juan Victor San Martin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-5124

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• Javier Moreno ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

  ¶‡ joint last authors

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0087-4659

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• Eugenia Carrillo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ecarrillo@isciii.es

  ¶‡ joint last authors

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7869-7915

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