About the Authors
- Odin Goovaerts
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* E-mail: ogoovaerts@itg.be
Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Wim Jennes
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Marguerite Massinga-Loembé
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Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambarene, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Ann Ceulemans
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- William Worodria
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Network for Treatment and Research in Africa (INTERACT), Kampala, Uganda
- Harriet Mayanja-Kizza
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
- Robert Colebunders
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Luc Kestens
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Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- the TB-IRIS Study Group
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¶Membership of TB-IRIS study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: OG. Performed the experiments: OG AC. Analyzed the data: OG WJ. Wrote the manuscript: OG WJ. Project management: MML WW HMK RC LK. Study physicians: WW RC.