PCR for detection of Leishmania donovani from microscopically negative tissue smears of suspected patients in Gondar, Ethiopia

• Roma Melkamu ,

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

  * E-mail: roma.melkamu@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5952-252X

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• Nega Berhane,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Bart K. M. Jacobs,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Rezika Mohammed,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Mekibib Kassa,

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

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Arega Yeshanew,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Helina Fikre,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Saba Atnafu,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Saskia van Henten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Johan van Griensven,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Myrthe Pareyn

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

  Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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