Nucleic acid testing identifies high prevalence of blood borne viruses among approved blood donors in Mozambique

• Nédio Mabunda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nedio.jonas@ins.gov.mz

  Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Marracuene, Mozambique, Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Brasil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1848-4627

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• Orvalho Augusto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0005-3968

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• Ana Flora Zicai,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Marracuene, Mozambique

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• Ana Duajá,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Marracuene, Mozambique, Hospital Central da Beira, Sofala, Mozambique

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• Sandra Oficiano,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hospital Central de Maputo, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Nalia Ismael,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Marracuene, Mozambique

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• Adolfo Vubil,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Marracuene, Mozambique

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• Tufária Mussá,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-3585

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• Milton Moraes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Brasil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2653-0037

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• Ilesh Jani

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

  Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Marracuene, Mozambique

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6880-6655

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