Cryptococcal antigen positivity combined with the percentage of HIV-seropositive samples with CD4 counts <100 cells/μl identifies districts in South Africa with advanced burden of disease

• Lindi-Marie Coetzee ,

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

  * E-mail: lindi.coetzee@nhls.ac.za

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programmes Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8981-1744

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• Naseem Cassim,

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

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programmes Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Charlotte Sriruttan,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), Division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Mabatho Mhlanga,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), Division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Nelesh P. Govender,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), Division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Deborah Kim Glencross

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programmes Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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