About the Authors
- Christopher D. Intemann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher D. Intemann, Thorsten Thye, Stefan Niemann
Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Thorsten Thye
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher D. Intemann, Thorsten Thye, Stefan Niemann
Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Stefan Niemann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher D. Intemann, Thorsten Thye, Stefan Niemann
Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Edmund N. L. Browne
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Affiliation Department of Community Health, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- Margaret Amanua Chinbuah
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Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
- Anthony Enimil
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Affiliations Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
- John Gyapong
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Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
- Ivy Osei
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Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
- Ellis Owusu-Dabo
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Affiliations Department of Community Health, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
- Susanne Helm
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Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes
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Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Rolf D. Horstmann
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Christian G. Meyer
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* E-mail: c.g.meyer@bni-hamburg.de
Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TT ENLB MAC AE JOG IO EOD SRG RDH CGM. Performed the experiments: CDI TT SN SH. Analyzed the data: CDI TT SN CGM. Wrote the paper: CGM. Sample collection supervision Ghana: ENLB. Study design and phenotyping of patients and controls: ENLB MAC JOG IO EOD. Sample collection: MAC AE IO EOD. Sample collection supervision: JOG.