Unsterile injection equipment associated with HIV outbreak and an extremely high prevalence of HCV—A case-control investigation from Unnao, India

• Sandip Patil ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandip Patil, Amrita Rao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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• Amrita Rao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandip Patil, Amrita Rao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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• Preety Pathak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Swarali Kurle,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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• Arati Mane,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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• Amit Nirmalkar,

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

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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• A. K. Singhal,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Community Health Centre, Department of Medical & Health, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Bangarmau, India

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• Vinita Verma,

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

  Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Mukesh Kumar Singh,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Community Health Centre, Department of Medical & Health, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Bangarmau, India

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• D. C. S. Reddy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Technical Resource Group, National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Ashwini Shete,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0791-2128

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• Manjula Singh,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarter, New Delhi, India

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• Raman Gangakhedkar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarter, New Delhi, India

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• Samiran Panda

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

  * E-mail: director@nariindia.org, pandasamiran@gmail.com, samiranpanda.hq@icmr.gov.in

  Affiliations Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarter, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5077-6275

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