Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for detection of latent tuberculosis infection in pregnant women living in a tuberculosis- and HIV-endemic setting

• John König Walles ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John König Walles, Fregenet Tesfaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: John.Konig_Walles@med.lu.se

  Affiliations Clinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Hospital, Kristianstad, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3445-7741

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• Fregenet Tesfaye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John König Walles, Fregenet Tesfaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

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• Marianne Jansson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• Taye Tolera Balcha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Niclas Winqvist,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Skåne Regional Office for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Malmö, Sweden

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• Mestawet Kefeni,

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

  Affiliation Adama Regional Laboratory, Adama, Ethiopia

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• Sileshi Garoma Abeya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Adama Hospital Medical College, Adama, Ethiopia

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• Feleke Belachew,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Adama Regional Laboratory, Adama, Ethiopia

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• Erik Sturegård,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Skåne Regional Office for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Malmö, Sweden

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• Per Björkman

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

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