Characterisation of tetraspanins from Schistosoma haematobium and evaluation of their potential as novel diagnostic markers

• Gebeyaw G. Mekonnen,

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

  Affiliations Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Bemnet A. Tedla,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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• Mark S. Pearson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.pearson@jcu.edu.au (MSP); alex.loukas@jcu.edu.au (AL); javier.sotillo@isciii.es (JS)

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0002-1544

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• Luke Becker,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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• Matt Field,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliations Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine and Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, Immunogenomics Lab, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

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• Abena S. Amoah,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, Chilumba, Malawi

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• Govert van Dam,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Paul L. A. M. Corstjens,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0004-0526

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• Takafira Mduluza,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Biochemistry Department, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa Partnership, NIHR Global Health Research Unit, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5613-5014

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• Francisca Mutapi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa Partnership, NIHR Global Health Research Unit, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe, Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Alex Loukas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.pearson@jcu.edu.au (MSP); alex.loukas@jcu.edu.au (AL); javier.sotillo@isciii.es (JS)

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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• Javier Sotillo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.pearson@jcu.edu.au (MSP); alex.loukas@jcu.edu.au (AL); javier.sotillo@isciii.es (JS)

  Affiliations Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1443-7233

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