Distinct loiasis infection states and associated clinical and hematological manifestations in patients from Gabon

• Luzia Veletzky ,

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

  * E-mail: luzia.veletzky@meduniwien.ac.at(LV); ramharter@bnitm.de (MR)

  Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, German Center For Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Borstel-Riems, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8170

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• Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Jennifer Hergeth,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Daniel Robert Stelzl,

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

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Urology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Rella Zoleko Manego,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany & German Center for Infection Research, partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany & German Center for Infection Research, partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Ruth Kreuzmair,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Gerrit Burger,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany & German Center for Infection Research, partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Ayôla Akim Adegnika,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany & German Center for Infection Research, partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Selidji Todagbe Agnandji,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany & German Center for Infection Research, partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Pierre Blaise Matsiegui,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales de la Ngounié, Fougamou, Gabon

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• Michel Boussinesq,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMI 233-TransVIHMI-Inserm U1175-University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Benjamin Mordmüller,

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

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany & German Center for Infection Research, partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Medical Microbiology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Michael Ramharter

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: luzia.veletzky@meduniwien.ac.at(LV); ramharter@bnitm.de (MR)

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon, German Center For Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Borstel-Riems, Germany

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