Sensitivity and specificity of rapid hepatitis C antibody assays in freshly collected whole blood, plasma and serum samples: A multicentre prospective study

• Beatrice N. Vetter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: beatrice.vetter@finddx.org

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7898-472X

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• Stefano Ongarello,

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

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Alexander Tyshkovskiy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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• Maia Alkhazashvili,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Disease Control & Public Health/R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Nazibrola Chitadze,

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

  Affiliation National Center for Disease Control & Public Health/R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Kimcheng Choun,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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• An Sokkab,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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• Anja De Weggheleire,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglegted Tropical Diseases Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-4766

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• Fien Vanroye,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reference Laboratory HIV/STD, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Elena Ivanova Reipold

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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