Real-time PCR in detection and quantitation of Leishmania donovani for the diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis patients and the monitoring of their response to treatment

• Faria Hossain,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Infections and Parasitology, Nutrition and Clinical science division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2272-7038

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• Prakash Ghosh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Infections and Parasitology, Nutrition and Clinical science division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Anik Ashfaq Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Infections and Parasitology, Nutrition and Clinical science division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Malcolm S. Duthie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Aarthy C. Vallur,

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

  Affiliation InBios International Inc, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Alessandro Picone,

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

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Randall F. Howard,

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

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Steven G. Reed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Dinesh Mondal

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

  * E-mail: din63d@icddrb.org

  Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Infections and Parasitology, Nutrition and Clinical science division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-8327

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