Latent leprosy infection identified by dual RLEP and anti-PGL-I positivity: Implications for new control strategies

• Moises Batista da Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moises Batista da Silva, Wei Li

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

  Affiliation Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3886-7083

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• Wei Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moises Batista da Silva, Wei Li

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Colorado State University, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Fort Collins, CO, Unites States of America

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• Raquel Carvalho Bouth,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil

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• Angélica Rita Gobbo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil

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• Ana Caroline Cunha Messias,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil

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• Tania Mara Pires Moraes,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Pará, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0114-3735

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• Erika Vanessa Oliveira Jorge,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil

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• Josafá Gonçalves Barreto,

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

  Affiliations Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil, Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, Universidade Federal do Pará—Campus Castanhal, Castanhal, Pará, Brazil

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• Fred Bernardes Filho,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine of Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4690-1608

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• Guilherme Augusto Barros Conde,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Laboratório de Suporte a Decisões, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Pará, Brazil

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• Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade,

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

  Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine of Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Claudio Guedes Salgado ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CGS and JSS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Pará, Brazil

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• John Stewart Spencer

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: john.spencer@colostate.edu

  ¶‡ CGS and JSS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Colorado State University, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Fort Collins, CO, Unites States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8051-3038

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