Boosting effect of IL-7 in interferon gamma release assays to diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

• Hellen Hiza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0800-3823

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• Lukas Fenner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Jerry Hella ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Davis Kuchaka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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• Mohamed Sasamalo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Thomas Blauenfeldt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Center for Vaccine Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Gibson Kibiki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, East African Health Research Commission, Bujumbura, Burundi

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• Reginald A Kavishe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Tumaini University, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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• Francis Mhimbira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hellen Hiza, Lukas Fenner, Jerry Hella, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Blauenfeldt, Gibson Kibiki, Reginald A Kavishe, Francis Mhimbira

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania

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• Morten Ruhwald

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: moru@ssi.dk

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Center for Vaccine Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

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