Evaluation of circulating serum cathelicidin levels as a potential biomarker to discriminate between active and latent tuberculosis in Uganda

• Ester Lilian Acen ,

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

  * E-mail: mulamester82@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7048-4643

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• David Patrick Kateete,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• William Worodria,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ronald Olum,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences Unit, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Moses L. Joloba,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Mudarshiru Bbuye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere Lung Institute College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-2925

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• Irene Andia Biraro

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences Unit, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

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