About the Authors

Miguel Santin

msantin@bellvitgehospital.cat

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Laura Muñoz

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

David Rigau

Affiliation Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

M. Santin received a fee for speaking at two conferences sponsored by Inverness Medical Iberica, S.A.U. (former distributer of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube in Spain). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS. Analyzed the data: MS LM DR. Wrote the paper: MS.