Wuchereria bancrofti infection is associated with progression to clinical visceral leishmaniasis in VL- endemic areas in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

• Abhishek Kumar Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abhishek Kumar Singh, Tanyth de Gooyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Tanyth de Gooyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abhishek Kumar Singh, Tanyth de Gooyer

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6906-8204

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• Om Prakash Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Sundaram Pandey,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Aziza Neyaz,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Kristien Cloots,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Sangeeta Kansal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Paritosh Malaviya,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Madhukar Rai,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Susanne Nylén,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

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• Jaya Chakravarty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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• Epco Hasker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Shyam Sundar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drshyamsundar@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9988-582X

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