A prospective cross-sectional study of tuberculosis in elderly Hispanics reveals that BCG vaccination at birth is protective whereas diabetes is not a risk factor

• Julia M. Scordo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Host Pathogen Interactions and Population Health Programs, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America, The University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Génesis P. Aguillón-Durán,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Secretaria de Salud de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México

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• Doris Ayala,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Brownsville, TX, United States of America

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• Ana Paulina Quirino-Cerrillo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Brownsville, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8817-554X

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• Eminé Rodríguez-Reyna †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Secretaria de Salud de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México

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• Francisco Mora-Guzmán †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Secretaria de Salud de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México

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• Jose A. Caso,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Biology Department, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States of America, School of Medicine, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States of America

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• Eder Ledezma-Campos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Secretaria de Salud de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México

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• Larry S. Schlesinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Host Pathogen Interactions and Population Health Programs, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Jordi B. Torrelles,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Host Pathogen Interactions and Population Health Programs, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Joanne Turner,

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

  Affiliation Host Pathogen Interactions and Population Health Programs, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Blanca I. Restrepo

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

  * E-mail: Blanca.i.restrepo@uth.tmc.edu

  Affiliations University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Brownsville, TX, United States of America, Biology Department, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3743-9098

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