About the Authors
- Maria Rebelo
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Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné - CERMEL, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné, Gabon
- Claudia Sousa
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Howard M. Shapiro
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Affiliation The Center for Microbial Cytometry, West Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Maria M. Mota
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- Martin P. Grobusch
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Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné - CERMEL, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné, Gabon, Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre for Tropical and Travel Medicine, Amsterdam Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Thomas Hänscheid
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* E-mail: t.hanscheid@fm.ul.pt
Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné - CERMEL, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné, Gabon
Competing Interests
The authors would like to declare that the author HMS is an employee of The Center for Microbial Cytometry. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Evaluated and provided advice on different aspects of the novel assay and its development, and contributed to writing and revising the final manuscript: MPG HMS MMM. Conceived and designed the experiments: MR HMS MMM MPG TH. Performed the experiments: MR CS. Analyzed the data: MR CS HMS TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMM TH. Wrote the paper: MR MPG HMS TH.