About the Authors
- Synne Jenum
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* E-mail: Synne.Jenum@rr-research.no
Affiliation Centre for Immune Regulation and Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet and the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Harleen M. S. Grewal
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway, and Department of Microbiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- David A. Hokey
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Affiliation Aeras, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- John Kenneth
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, India
- Mario Vaz
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Affiliation Physiology and Health and Humanities, St. John’s Medical College and St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, India
- Timothy Mark Doherty
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Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Pharma, Vaccines, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Frode Lars Jahnsen
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Affiliation Centre for Immune Regulation and Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet and the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- TB Trials Study Group
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¶The members of the TB Trials Study Group who participated are listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Professor Doherty is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member and reviewer. However, he has not been in contact with other PLOS ONE staff with regard to this submission and recused himself from the decision on whether to submit to PLOS ONE and the choice of suggested reviewers. Doherty is also employed by a commercial company (GlaxoSmithKline Pharma, hereafter GSK) but hereby attests that GSK had no role in the planning, conduct or analysis of the research reported in this study, nor in the writing of the manuscript. Professor Doherty’s involvement in the study was as part of his position as an adjunct professor at the University of Bergen. Therefore, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ HMSG MV TMD FLJ. Performed the experiments: SJ. Analyzed the data: SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAH JK FLJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SJ TMD FLJ. Study logistics and quality assurance of samples at the study site and in Bangalore: JK MV. Quality assurance of the data: SJ HMSG JK MV. Established the multi-color flowcytometry analysis: SJ DAH FLJ. Read and contributed to the manuscript: HMSG DAH JK MV TMD.