Detection of asymptomatic Leishmania infection in blood donors at two blood banks in Ethiopia

• Rezika Mohammed,

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

  Affiliations Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Centre, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Roma Melkamu,

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

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

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• Myrthe Pareyn,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Said Abdellati,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Tadfe Bogale,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Asinakew Engidaw,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Abiy Kinfu,

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

  Affiliation National blood Bank, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tibebu Girma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National blood Bank, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Johan van Griensven

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jvangriensven@itg.be

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6581-2964

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