Transcriptome analysis reveals increased abundance and diversity of opportunistic fungal pathogens in nasopharyngeal tract of COVID-19 patients

• M. Nazmul Hoque ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Shaminur Rahman, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproductive Health, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4861-0030

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• M. Shaminur Rahman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Shaminur Rahman, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-9337

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• Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Shaminur Rahman, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md Ahashan Habib,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Shahina Akter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tanjina Akhtar Banu,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Barna Goswami,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Iffat Jahan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Anwar Hossain,

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

  Affiliation Jashore Unive rsity of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh

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• M. Salim Khan ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: tofazzalislam@bsmrau.edu.bd (TI); k2salim@yahoo.com (MSK)

  Affiliation Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tofazzal Islam

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tofazzalislam@bsmrau.edu.bd (TI); k2salim@yahoo.com (MSK)

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), BSMRAU, Gazipur, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7613-0261

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