Comparison of immunological and molecular methods for laboratory diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis in blood, serum and tears in Brazil

• Raissa Cristina Ferreira Ramos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raissa Cristina Ferreira Ramos, Alynne da Silva Barbosa, Ana Luisa Quintella do Couto Aleixo, Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira

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

  * E-mail: raissaferamos@gmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratory of Toxoplasmosis and Other Protozooses, Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-7435

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• Alynne da Silva Barbosa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raissa Cristina Ferreira Ramos, Alynne da Silva Barbosa, Ana Luisa Quintella do Couto Aleixo, Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira

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

  Affiliations Laboratory of Toxoplasmosis and Other Protozooses, Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Biomedical Institute / Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5007-1339

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• Ana Luisa Quintella do Couto Aleixo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raissa Cristina Ferreira Ramos, Alynne da Silva Barbosa, Ana Luisa Quintella do Couto Aleixo, Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Research in Infectious Ophthalmology–Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectology/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Igor Falco Arruda,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Toxoplasmosis and Other Protozooses, Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raissa Cristina Ferreira Ramos, Alynne da Silva Barbosa, Ana Luisa Quintella do Couto Aleixo, Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Toxoplasmosis and Other Protozooses, Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0867-1445

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