Considerations in evaluating equipment-free blood culture bottles: A short protocol for use in low-resource settings

• Sien Ombelet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Immunology & Microbiology Department, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-0736

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• Alessandra Natale,

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

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris, France

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• Jean-Baptiste Ronat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris, France, Team ReSIST, INSERM U1184, School of Medicine University Paris-Saclay, Paris, France, Bacteriology-Hygiene Unit, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

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• Olivier Vandenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Environmental Health and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Innovation and Business Development Unit, Laboratoire Hospitalier Universitaire de Bruxelles - Universitair Laboratorium Brussel (LHUB-ULB), ULB, Brussels, Belgium, Division of Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Jan Jacobs,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Immunology & Microbiology Department, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Liselotte Hardy

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

  * E-mail: lhardy@itg.be

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8785-5081

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