Evaluation of Specimen Types for Pima CD4 Point-of-Care Testing: Advantages of Fingerstick Blood Collection into an EDTA Microtube

• Luciana Kohatsu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luciana Kohatsu, Omotayo Bolu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lwesterman@cdc.gov (LEW); iee2@cdc.gov (LK)

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Omotayo Bolu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luciana Kohatsu, Omotayo Bolu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Mary E. Schmitz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Washington DC, United States of America

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• Karen Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Washington DC, United States of America

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• Ruth Lemwayi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation African Field Epidemiology Network, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Nichole Arnett,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Michael Mwasekaga,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• John Nkengasong,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Fausta Mosha,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations African Field Epidemiology Network, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ministry of Health Community Development Gender Elderly and Children, Government of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Larry E. Westerman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lwesterman@cdc.gov (LEW); iee2@cdc.gov (LK)

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9564-0673

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