Feasibility and Diagnostic Utility of Antigen-Specific Interferon-γ Responses for Rapid Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis Using Induced Sputum

• Tamaryn J. Cashmore ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamaryn J. Cashmore, Jonathan G. Peter

  Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jonathan G. Peter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamaryn J. Cashmore, Jonathan G. Peter

  Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Richard N. van Zyl-Smit,

  Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Patricia L. Semple,

  Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Alice Maredza,

  Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Richard Meldau,

  Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Alimuddin Zumla,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Infection, UCL Medical School, London, United Kingdom

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• Barbara Nurse,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, National Health Laboratory Service/University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Keertan Dheda

  * E-mail: keertan.dheda@uct.ac.za

  Affiliations Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Infection, UCL Medical School, London, United Kingdom

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