Variant G57E of Mannose Binding Lectin Associated with Protection against Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium africanum but not by M. tuberculosis

• Thorsten Thye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Thye, Stefan Niemann

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Stefan Niemann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Thye, Stefan Niemann

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Kerstin Walter,

  Affiliation Microbial Inflammation Research, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Susanne Homolka,

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Christopher D. Intemann,

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Margaret Amanua Chinbuah,

  Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Anthony Enimil,

  Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

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• John Gyapong,

  Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Ivy Osei,

  Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Ellis Owusu-Dabo,

  Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Deptartment of Community Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Rolf D. Horstmann,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Stefan Ehlers,

  Affiliations Microbial Inflammation Research, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Cluster of Excellence Inflammation at Interfaces, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Kiel, Germany

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• Christian G. Meyer

  * E-mail: c.g.meyer@bni.uni-hamburg.de

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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