Persistent expression of activation markers on Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4 T cells in smear negative TB patients

• Ahmed Esmael ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: esmaelahmed8@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Debre Markos University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0310-0280

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• Adane Mihret,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tamrat Abebe,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Daniel Mussa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Sebsibe Neway,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2033-5874

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• Joel Ernst,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Jyothi Rengarajan,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Emory Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Liya Wassie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liya Wassie, Rawleigh Howe

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

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Rawleigh Howe

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liya Wassie, Rawleigh Howe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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