About the Authors
- Beston Hamasur
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* E-mail: beston.hamasur@ki.se
Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Judith Bruchfeld
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Institution of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Solna and, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
- Paul van Helden
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Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, US/MRC Centre for TB Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
- Gunilla Källenius
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stefan Svenson
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† Deceased.
Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Competing Interests
BH and GK are co-founders of TBDiadirect AB, a start-up company aiming at developing the Uri-TB-direct test. BH is one of the inventors of a Swedish patent application (1450908-7) filed on these findings, which is owned by TBDiadirect AB. SS was cofounder of TBDiadirect and also inventor together with Beston Hamasur. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and material. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BH SS. Performed the experiments: BH SS. Analyzed the data: BH JB PH GK SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB PH. Wrote the paper: BH JB PH GK SS.