Using dried blood spots to estimate Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in pregnant women in Catalonia, Spain, and to serologically diagnose congenital toxoplasmosis

• Borja Guarch-Ibáñez ,

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

  * E-mail: bguarch.girona.ics@gencat.cat (BGI); ifuentes@isciii.es (IF)

  ¶☯ These two authors have contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations ICS-IAS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Paediatrics Department, Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr. Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain, Universitat de Girona (UDG), Girona, Spain, Congenital Infections Working Group, Sociedad Española de Infectología Pediátrica (SEIP), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8601-0191

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• Ana Argudo-Ramírez ,

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

  ¶☯ These two authors have contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Inborn Errors of Metabolism Division-IBC, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain

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• Clara Carreras-Abad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Congenital Infections Working Group, Sociedad Española de Infectología Pediátrica (SEIP), Madrid, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Paediatrics Department, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias y Pujol, Badalona, Spain

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• Marie Antoinette Frick,

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

  Affiliations Congenital Infections Working Group, Sociedad Española de Infectología Pediátrica (SEIP), Madrid, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit. Children’s Hospital. Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Daniel Blázquez-Gamero,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Congenital Infections Working Group, Sociedad Española de Infectología Pediátrica (SEIP), Madrid, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Fernando Baquero-Artigao,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Congenital Infections Working Group, Sociedad Española de Infectología Pediátrica (SEIP), Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit. Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Judit García-Villoira,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inborn Errors of Metabolism Division-IBC, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain

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• the Spanish REIV-TOXO group ,

  ¶A complete list of the members of the REIV-TOXO Study Group is provided in Supporting Information (S1 Appendix).

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• Pere Soler-Palacín ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These two authors jointly supervised this work.

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit. Children’s Hospital. Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Isabel Fuentes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bguarch.girona.ics@gencat.cat (BGI); ifuentes@isciii.es (IF)

  ¶‡ These two authors jointly supervised this work.

  Affiliation Toxoplasmosis and Intestinal Protozoa Unit, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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