About the Authors
- Dumitru Chesov
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Affiliations Division of Pneumology and Allergology, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu", Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Christoph Lange
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* E-mail: clange@fz-borstel.de
Affiliations Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Tuberculosis Unit, Borstel, Germany, International Health/Infectious Diseases, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Franziska Daduna
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Affiliations Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Tuberculosis Unit, Borstel, Germany
- Valeriu Crudu
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Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology and Morphology of Tuberculosis, Institute of Phthisiopneumology “Chiril Draganiuc”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- Rosemarie Preyer
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Affiliation Autoimmun Diagnostika GmbH, Straßberg, Germany
- Martin Ernst
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Affiliation Division of Immune Cell-Analytics, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Barbara Kalsdorf
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Affiliations Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Tuberculosis Unit, Borstel, Germany
Competing Interests
Christoph Lange reports personal fees from Chiesi, personal fees from Celltrion, personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from MSD, personal fees from Pfizer, personal fees from Archivel, outside the submitted work. Rosemarie Preyer is an employee of Advanced Immune Diagnostics (AID), manufacturer of the FluoroSpot. Dumitru Chesov, Franziska Daduna, Valeriu Crudu, Martin Ernst and Barbara Kalsdorf declare no conflict of interest. Also the authors would like to confirm that the competing interests declared bellow do not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CL ME RP BK. Performed the experiments: DC FD ME BK. Analyzed the data: DC CL FD VC ME BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP. Wrote the paper: DC CL ME RP VC FD BK.