Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific CD8 T-Cells in Patients with Active Tuberculosis and in Individuals with Latent Infection

• Nadia Caccamo ,

  * E-mail: caccamo@unipa.it.

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Metodologie Biomediche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Giuliana Guggino,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Metodologie Biomediche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Serena Meraviglia,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Metodologie Biomediche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Giuseppe Gelsomino,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Metodologie Biomediche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Paola Di Carlo,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e delle Patologie Emergenti, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Lucina Titone,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e delle Patologie Emergenti, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Marialuisa Bocchino,

  Affiliation TB Infection Screening Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy

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• Domenico Galati,

  Affiliation TB Infection Screening Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy

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• Alessandro Matarese,

  Affiliation TB Infection Screening Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy

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• Jan Nouta,

  Affiliation Department of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion and Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Michel R. Klein,

  Affiliation National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Alfredo Salerno,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Metodologie Biomediche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Alessandro Sanduzzi,

  Affiliation TB Infection Screening Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy

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• Francesco Dieli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Dieli, Tom H. M. Ottenhoff

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Metodologie Biomediche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Tom H. M. Ottenhoff

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Dieli, Tom H. M. Ottenhoff

  Affiliation Department of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion and Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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