Comparison of diagnostic methods to detect Histoplasma capsulatum in serum and blood samples from AIDS patients

• Katia Cristina Dantas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katia Cristina Dantas, Roseli Santos de Freitas

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katia.dantas@fm.usp.br

  ¶‡ KC Dantas and RS Freitas are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sao Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1346-9003

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• Roseli Santos de Freitas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katia Cristina Dantas, Roseli Santos de Freitas

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

  ¶‡ KC Dantas and RS Freitas are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Medical Mycology Laboratory-LIM 53/HCFMUSP and Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Marcos Vinicius da Silva,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Emilio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Consultant, Ministry of Health, Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, and Professor, Program in Postgraduate Sciences and Coordination of Disease Control, Department of State Health, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Paulo Ricardo Criado,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliations Medical Mycology Laboratory-LIM 53/HCFMUSP and Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Full Researcher at ABC Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Olinda do Carmo Luiz,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Preventive Medicine Department, Sao Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Adriana Pardini Vicentini

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

  Affiliation Immunology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil

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