Cryptogenic hepatitis patients have a higher Bartonella sp.-DNA detection in blood and skin samples than patients with non-viral hepatitis of known cause

• Marina Rovani Drummond,

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

  Affiliation Applied Research in Dermatology and Bartonella Infection Laboratory, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Luciene Silva dos Santos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Applied Research in Dermatology and Bartonella Infection Laboratory, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Renata Soalheiro Fávaro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ilka de Fátima Santana Ferreira Boin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pvelho@unicamp.br

  Affiliations Applied Research in Dermatology and Bartonella Infection Laboratory, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7901-2351

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