Prevalence and determinants of asymptomatic Leishmania infection in HIV-infected individuals living within visceral leishmaniasis endemic areas of Bihar, India

Raman Mahajan; Sophie I. Owen; Shiril Kumar; Krishna Pandey; Shahwar Kazmi; Vikash Kumar; Emily R. Adams; Amit Harshana; Sakib Burza

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010718

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Prevalence and determinants of asymptomatic Leishmania infection in HIV-infected individuals living within visceral leishmaniasis endemic areas of Bihar, India

Raman Mahajan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raman Mahajan, Sophie I. Owen

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

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India
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Sophie I. Owen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raman Mahajan, Sophie I. Owen

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

Affiliation Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Shiril Kumar,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Science, Patna, Bihar, India
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Krishna Pandey,

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Science, Patna, Bihar, India
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Shahwar Kazmi,

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India
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Vikash Kumar,

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India
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Emily R. Adams,

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Amit Harshana,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India
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Sakib Burza

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sakibburza@gmail.com

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7886-8633

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Prevalence and determinants of asymptomatic Leishmania infection in HIV-infected individuals living within visceral leishmaniasis endemic areas of Bihar, India

Raman Mahajan,
Sophie I. Owen,
Shiril Kumar,
Krishna Pandey,
Shahwar Kazmi,
Vikash Kumar,
Emily R. Adams,
Amit Harshana,
Sakib Burza

Published: August 30, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010718

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