Molecular quantification and differentiation of Candida species in biological specimens of patients with liver cirrhosis

• Sandra Krohn ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sandra.krohn@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliations University Hospital Leipzig, Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Leipzig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-8728

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• Katharina Zeller,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation University Hospital Leipzig, Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Stephan Böhm,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Ludwig Maximilians-University, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Clinical Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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• Antonis Chatzinotas,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Hauke Harms,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Jan Hartmann,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital and Outpatient Clinic for Internal Medicine A, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Anett Heidtmann,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Adam Herber,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation University Hospital Leipzig, Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Thorsten Kaiser,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Maud Treuheit,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Albrecht Hoffmeister,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Endoscopy Unit, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Thomas Berg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Berg, Cornelius Engelmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation University Hospital Leipzig, Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Cornelius Engelmann

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Berg, Cornelius Engelmann

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations University Hospital Leipzig, Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, University College London, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom

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