Acridine orange fluorescent microscopy is more sensitive than India ink light microscopy in the rapid detection of cryptococcosis among CrAg positive HIV patients

• Richard Kwizera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Kwizera, Andrew Akampurira

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

  * E-mail: kwizerarichard@ymail.com

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5270-3539

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• Andrew Akampurira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Kwizera, Andrew Akampurira

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Darlisha Williams ,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• David R. Boulware ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• David B. Meya ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• on behalf of the ASTRO-CM Study Team

  ¶Membership of the ASTRO-CM Study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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