Identification of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni linear B-cell epitopes with diagnostic potential using in silico immunoinformatic tools and peptide microarray technology

• Arthur Vengesai ,

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

  * E-mail: arthurvengesai@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Midlands State University, Senga Road, Gweru, Zimbabwe

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-6843

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• Marble Manuwa,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Herald Midzi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Midlands State University, Senga Road, Gweru, Zimbabwe

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• Masimba Mandeya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Midlands State University, Senga Road, Gweru, Zimbabwe

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• Victor Muleya,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Midlands State University, Senga Road, Gweru, Zimbabwe

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• Keith Mujeni,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partnership in Education Training and Research Advancement, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Isaac Chipako,

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

  Affiliation Health Economics and Policy Department, Division of Health Research Graduate College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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• Takafira Mduluza

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

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

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