Proportions of interferon-γ-producing ascites lymphocytes in response to mycobacterial antigens: A help for early diagnosis of peritoneal tuberculosis in a low TB incidence country

• Sophie Henrard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Henrard, Véronique Corbière

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

  Affiliation Immunodeficiencies Treatment Unit, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, Belgium

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• Véronique Corbière ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Henrard, Véronique Corbière

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, Belgium

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• Liliane Schandené,

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

  Affiliation Immunobiology Clinic, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium

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• Martine Ducarme,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Immunobiology Clinic, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium

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• Anne Van Praet,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, Belgium

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• Emmanuelle Petit,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSERM, U1019, Lille, France, CNRS, UMR8204, Lille, France, Université de Lille, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France

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• Mahavir Singh,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lionex Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Camille Locht,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSERM, U1019, Lille, France, CNRS, UMR8204, Lille, France, Université de Lille, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France

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• Violette Dirix,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, Belgium

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• Françoise Mascart

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fmascart@ulb.ac.be

  Affiliations Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, Belgium, Immunobiology Clinic, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-7944

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