Lesion-Specific Immune Response in Granulomas of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Pilot Study

• Selvakumar Subbian ,

  * E-mail: subbiase@njms.rutgers.edu

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, Public Health Research Institute (PHRI), Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Liana Tsenova,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, Public Health Research Institute (PHRI), Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, NYC College of Technology, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• Mi-Jeong Kim,

  Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Helen C. Wainwright,

  Affiliation Division of Anatomical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Annalie Visser,

  Affiliation Division of Anatomical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, High-Throughput Biology Center and Institute of Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joel S. Bader,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, High-Throughput Biology Center and Institute of Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Petros C. Karakousis,

  Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gabriele B. Murrmann,

  Affiliation Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

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• Linda-Gail Bekker,

  Affiliation The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• David G. Russell,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Gilla Kaplan

  Affiliation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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