Effect of Standard Tuberculosis Treatment on Plasma Cytokine Levels in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis

• Catherine Riou,

  Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Blas Perez Peixoto,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis and the TB Research Unit (TBRU), Public Health Research Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Lindi Roberts,

  Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Katharina Ronacher,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation (DST/NRF) Center of Excellence for TB Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Gerhard Walzl,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation (DST/NRF) Center of Excellence for TB Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Claudia Manca,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis and the TB Research Unit (TBRU), Public Health Research Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Roxana Rustomjee,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Unit - Clinical and Biomedical, Medical Research Council, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Thuli Mthiyane,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Unit - Clinical and Biomedical, Medical Research Council, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Dorothy Fallows,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis and the TB Research Unit (TBRU), Public Health Research Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Clive M. Gray ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clive M. Gray, Gilla Kaplan

  * E-mail: clive.gray@uct.ac.za

  Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Gilla Kaplan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clive M. Gray, Gilla Kaplan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis and the TB Research Unit (TBRU), Public Health Research Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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