Prevalence and predictors of Aspergillus seropositivity and chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in an urban tertiary hospital in Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional study

• Sulaiman Lakoh ,

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

  * E-mail: lakoh2009@gmial.com

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sustainable Health Systems Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7639-0004

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• Joseph B. Kamara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Emma Orefuwa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Global Action For Fungal Infections, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Daniel Sesay,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Darlinda F. Jiba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Olukemi Adekanmbi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

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• Gibrilla F. Deen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• James B. W. Russell,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Abubakarr Bailor Bah,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Maxwell Joseph Kargbo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Emmanuel Firima,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinical Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation, Abuja, Nigeria

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• George A. Yendewa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David W. Denning

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Action For Fungal Infections, Geneva, Switzerland, Manchester Fungal Infection Group, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

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