Aberrant plasma IL-7 and soluble IL-7 receptor levels indicate impaired T-cell response to IL-7 in human tuberculosis

• Christian Lundtoft ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Lundtoft, Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, Jens Rimpler

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Lundtoft, Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, Jens Rimpler

  Affiliations Kumasi Centre for collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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• Jens Rimpler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Lundtoft, Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, Jens Rimpler

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Kirstin Harling,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Norman Nausch,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9704-2148

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• Malte Kohns,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Ernest Adankwah,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Franziska Lang,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6398-3436

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• Laura Olbrich,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Ertan Mayatepek,

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8460-3738

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• Ellis Owusu-Dabo,

  Affiliations Kumasi Centre for collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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• Marc Jacobsen

  * E-mail: marc.jacobsen@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

  Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-5652

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