Cough-aerosol cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the prediction of outcomes after exposure. A household contact study in Brazil

• Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carlosvillaorduna@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6966-5682

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• Luiz Guilherme Schmidt-Castellani,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

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• Patricia Marques-Rodrigues,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

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• Laura F. White,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• David Jamil Hadad,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

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• Mary Gaeddert,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jerrold J. Ellner,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kevin P. Fennelly,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pulmonary Clinical Medicine Section, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Moises Palaci,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

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• Reynaldo Dietze,

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

  Affiliations Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, Global Health & Tropical Medicine - Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Edward C. Jones-López

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

  Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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