Immune responses to vaginal candidiasis in African women: A scoping review of cytokine profiles, T-cell activation, and gene expression

• Bwambale Jonani ,

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

  * E-mail: bwambale.jonani@mak.ac.ug

  Affiliations Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Laboratory Department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9719-3934

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• Bwire Roman Herman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory Department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso, Uganda

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• Joel Fredrick Arturo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory Department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso, Uganda

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• Richard Kwizera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Kwizera, Gerald Mboowa

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

  Affiliation Department of Research, Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Gerald Mboowa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Kwizera, Gerald Mboowa

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

  Affiliations Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, The African Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Felix Bongomin

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

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