External Quality Assessment for Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Drug Resistance in the European Union: A Five Year Multicentre Implementation Study

• Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Doris Hillemann

  * E-mail: vlad.nikolayevskyy@phe.gov.uk

  Affiliations PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Doris Hillemann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Doris Hillemann

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Elvira Richter,

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Nada Ahmed,

  Affiliation PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, United Kingdom

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• Marieke J. van der Werf,

  Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Csaba Kodmon,

  Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Francis Drobniewski ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Sabine Ruesch-Gerdes ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• ERLTB-Net Network

  ¶Membership of the ERLTB-Net is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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