Dried Blood Spots (DBS): A suitable alternative to using whole blood samples for diagnostic testing of visceral leishmaniasis in the post-elimination era

• Prakash Ghosh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Prakash Ghosh, Rajashree Chowdhury, Md. Abu Rahat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: prakash.ghosh@icddrb.org (PG); din63d@icddrb.org (DM)

  Affiliation Nutirition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4300-8761

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• Rajashree Chowdhury ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Prakash Ghosh, Rajashree Chowdhury, Md. Abu Rahat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nutirition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Abu Rahat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Prakash Ghosh, Rajashree Chowdhury, Md. Abu Rahat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nutirition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Faria Hossain,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Nutirition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Nur E Arpha,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mojca Kristan,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Matthew Higgins,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Ahmed Abd El Wahed,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Yasuyuki Goto,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• M. M. Towhidul Islam,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Susana Campino,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Mary Cameron,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Malcom S. Duthie,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HDT Bio, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Rashidul Haque,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emerging Infections and Parasitology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Dinesh Mondal

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: prakash.ghosh@icddrb.org (PG); din63d@icddrb.org (DM)

  Affiliation Nutirition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-8327

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