Improving anaemia diagnosis using peripheral blood smear with remote interpretation in adults living with HIV with moderate to severe anaemia: A prospective study nested within the Kilombero and Ulanga antiretroviral cohort

• Vanesa Anton-Vazquez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vanesa Anton-Vazquez, Dorcas Mnzava

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: v.anton-vazquez@nhs.net

  Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4414-3017

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• Dorcas Mnzava ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vanesa Anton-Vazquez, Dorcas Mnzava

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania

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• James Okuma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Slyakus Mlembe,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania

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• Laura Lo Riso,

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

  Affiliation Department of Haematology, Son Espases University Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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• Jose Maria Sanchez,

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

  Affiliation Department of Haematology, Son Espases University Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7337-9731

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• Robert Ndege,

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

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, St. Francis Referral Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania

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• Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Namvua Kimera,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania

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• Anna Eichenberger,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Giovanni Jacopo Nicoletti,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Herieth Wilson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania, St. Francis Referral Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania

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• Fiona Vanobberghen,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Maja Weisser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• on behalf of the KIULARCO Study Group

  ¶Membership of the KIULARCO Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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