Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the real-world diagnostic infrastructure for tuberculosis—An ESGMYC collaborative study

• Laura Paulowski,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National and WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Roxana Filip,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tuberculosis and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Suceava Emergency County Hospital, Suceava, Romania, Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Stefan Cel Mare Suceava University, Suceava, Romania

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• Mateja Jankovic Makek,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Respiratory Diseases Jordanovac, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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• Lorenzo Guglielmetti,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sorbonne Université, INSERM, U1135, Centre d’Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, Cimi-Paris, Paris, France, APHP, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Paris, France

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• Delia Goletti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8360-4376

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• Jakko van Ingen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Katharina Kranzer,

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

  Affiliations Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Florian P. Maurer ,

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

  * E-mail: florianpmaurer@icloud.com

  Affiliations National and WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8353-5964

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• on behalf of ESGMYC

  ¶All contributing authors are listed at the end of the manuscript

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