Laboratory diagnosis of loiasis to support individual patient management: A systematic review

• Luzia Veletzky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luzia Veletzky, Marc P. Hübner

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Marc P. Hübner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luzia Veletzky, Marc P. Hübner

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

  Affiliations University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Bonn, Germany

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• Cristina Mazzi,

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

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Veronica A. Fittipaldo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Marielle Bouyou-Akotet,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology-Mycology-Tropical Medicine, Université des Sciences de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon

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• Federico Gobbi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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• Michael Ramharter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Dep. Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Centre de Recherches Médicale de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Francesca Tamarozzi

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

  * E-mail: francesca.tamarozzi@sacrocuore.it

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0478-3914

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