Tuberculosis in HIV-Negative and HIV-Infected Patients in a Low-Incidence Country: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes

• Lukas Fenner ,

  * E-mail: lfenner@ispm.unibe.ch

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Sebastien Gagneux,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Jean-Paul Janssens,

  Affiliation Division of Pneumology, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jan Fehr,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Matthias Cavassini,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Matthias Hoffmann,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Kantonsspital St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Enos Bernasconi,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Ospedale Regionale, Lugano, Switzerland

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• Jacques Schrenzel,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Thomas Bodmer,

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Erik C. Böttger,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, National Center for Mycobacteria, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Peter Helbling,

  Affiliation Division of Communicable Diseases, Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland

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• Matthias Egger,

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• for the Swiss HIV Cohort and Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Study Groups