Expression of mycobacterium tuberculosis induced SOCS3 and STAT3 and the implications on innate immunity in TB patients vs healthy contacts in high TB/HIV endemic setting: A cross-sectional analytical study

• Patrick Lungu ,

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

  * E-mail: Lungupatrick99@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6349-1885

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• Kabaso Mushota,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USAID Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) Project, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Evarist Njelesani,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Lusaka Apex Medical University, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Thomas Sukwa,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Lusaka Apex Medical University, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Shabir Lakhi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Peter Mwaba

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Lusaka Apex Medical University, Lusaka, Zambia

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