Detection of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies by chimeric antigens in chronic Chagas disease-individuals from endemic South American countries

• Rodrigo Pimenta Del-Rei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Pimenta Del-Rei, Leonardo Maia Leony

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Technology and Sciences of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Leonardo Maia Leony ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Pimenta Del-Rei, Leonardo Maia Leony

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Paola Alejandra Fiorani Celedon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Nilson Ivo Tonin Zanchin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Carlos Chagas Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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• Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Pathology and Legal Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Yara de Miranda Gomes,

  Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Alejandro Gabriel Schijman,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas Disease, Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology “Dr Héctor Torres”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Silvia Andrea Longhi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas Disease, Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology “Dr Héctor Torres”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Fred Luciano Neves Santos

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

  * E-mail: fred.santos@bahia.fiocruz.br

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-0818

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