Synergy between tuberculin skin test and proliferative T cell responses to PPD or cell-membrane antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for detection of latent TB infection in a high disease-burden setting

• Suvrat Arya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suvrat Arya, Shashi Kant Kumar

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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• Shashi Kant Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suvrat Arya, Shashi Kant Kumar

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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• Alok Nath,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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• Prerna Kapoor,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation DOT Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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• Amita Aggarwal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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• Ramnath Misra,

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

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• Sudhir Sinha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ssinha@sgpgi.ac.in

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3149-1116

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