Lower prevalence of Blastocystis sp. infections in HIV positive compared to HIV negative adults in Ghana

• Veronica Di Cristanziano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Rossella D´Alfonso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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• Federica Berrilli,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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• Fred Stephen Sarfo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Maristella Santoro,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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• Lavinia Fabeni,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani—IRCCS, Rome, Italy

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• Elena Knops,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Eva Heger,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Rolf Kaiser,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Albert Dompreh,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Richard Odame Phillips,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Betty Norman,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Torsten Feldt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Clinic of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: k.eberhardt@bnitm.de

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-0326

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