About the Authors
- Markus Beutler
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: m.beutler@imlred.de
Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, Department IML Red GmbH, WHO-Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich-Gauting, Germany
- Sara Plesnik
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Roles Investigation
Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, Department IML Red GmbH, WHO-Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich-Gauting, Germany
- Marina Mihalic
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Roles Investigation
Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, Department IML Red GmbH, WHO-Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich-Gauting, Germany
- Laura Olbrich
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany, German Centre of Research on Infectious Diseases (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Germany
- Norbert Heinrich
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany, German Centre of Research on Infectious Diseases (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Germany
- Samuel Schumacher
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Roles Conceptualization
Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Michael Lindner
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Asklepios Fachkliniken München-Gauting, Munich, Germany
- Ina Koch
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Asklepios Fachkliniken München-Gauting, Munich, Germany
- Wolfgang Grasse
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Roles Methodology, Resources
Affiliation gerbion GmbH & Co. KG, Kornwestheim, Germany
- Christoph Metzger-Boddien
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Roles Resources
Affiliation gerbion GmbH & Co. KG, Kornwestheim, Germany
- Sabine Hofmann-Thiel
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, Department IML Red GmbH, WHO-Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich-Gauting, Germany, SYNLAB Gauting, SYNLAB Human Genetics Munich, Munich-Gauting, Germany
- Harald Hoffmann
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, Department IML Red GmbH, WHO-Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich-Gauting, Germany, SYNLAB Gauting, SYNLAB Human Genetics Munich, Munich-Gauting, Germany
Competing Interests
Xpert cartridges, FluoroType reagents and diarella MTB/NTM/MAC qPCR kits were provided free of charge by Cepheid, Hain Lifescience GmbH and gerbion GmbH & Co. KG, respectively. The BD-MAX machine was provided by Becton Dickinson free of charge. MB received a salary from BD for giving a talk at a conference (REMMDI, 11-April-2019). Gerbion GmbH & Co. KG and IML red GmbH are partners in further research projects (TB-Tube and TB-SeqDisK). A patent named “ARTIFICIAL SPUTUM, METHOD OF PRODUCING AN ARTIFICIAL SPUTUM” is submitted in the name of IML red GmbH to the European Patent Office and currently pending (application number EP19165015.9). The patent will not be published before the 25th of September 2020. Commercial affiliations and the pending patent do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.