Autophagy Gene Variant IRGM −261T Contributes to Protection from Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis but Not by M. africanum Strains

• Christopher D. Intemann ,

  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

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• Thorsten Thye ,

  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

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• Stefan Niemann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher D. Intemann, Thorsten Thye, Stefan Niemann

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Edmund N. L. Browne,

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Margaret Amanua Chinbuah,

  Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Anthony Enimil,

  Affiliations Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

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• John Gyapong,

  Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Ivy Osei,

  Affiliation Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Ellis Owusu-Dabo,

  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

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• Susanne Helm,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Rolf D. Horstmann,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Christian G. Meyer

  * E-mail: c.g.meyer@bni-hamburg.de

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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