Integration of molecular typing results into tuberculosis surveillance in Germany—A pilot study

• Marta Andrés ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marta Andrés, Elke Göhring-Zwacka

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: martaandresm@gmail.com

  Current address: Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  ¶‡ WH SN and BB also contributed equally to this work. MA and EGZ share first authorship on this work. WH SN and BB share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4369-2898

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• Elke Göhring-Zwacka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marta Andrés, Elke Göhring-Zwacka

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ WH SN and BB also contributed equally to this work. MA and EGZ share first authorship on this work. WH SN and BB share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation State Health Department (Landesgesundheitsamt) Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Lena Fiebig,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Martin Priwitzer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Local Public Health Office (Gesundheitsamt) Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Elvira Richter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Labor Dr. Limbach, TB Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation National Reference Center (NRC) for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Walter Haas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ WH SN and BB also contributed equally to this work. MA and EGZ share first authorship on this work. WH SN and BB share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Stefan Niemann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  ¶‡ WH SN and BB also contributed equally to this work. MA and EGZ share first authorship on this work. WH SN and BB share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliations National Reference Center (NRC) for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Borstel, Germany

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• Bonita Brodhun

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ WH SN and BB also contributed equally to this work. MA and EGZ share first authorship on this work. WH SN and BB share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Respiratory Infections Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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