Resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among highly TB exposed South African gold miners

• Violet N. Chihota ,

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

  * E-mail: vchihota@auruminstitute.org

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9266

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• Thobani Ntshiqa,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Pholo Maenetje,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Raoul Mansukhani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9456-5859

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• Kavindhran Velen,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8577-3915

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• Thomas R. Hawn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Robert Wallis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Alison D. Grant,

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

  Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Africa Health Research Institute, School of Laboratory and Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2437-5195

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• Gavin J. Churchyard ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Katherine Fielding

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6524-3754

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