About the Authors
- Benjamin Krummel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Krummel, Alan Strassburg
Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Alan Strassburg
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Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Krummel, Alan Strassburg
Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Martin Ernst
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Affiliation Division of Immune Cell Analytics, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Norbert Reiling
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Affiliation Division of Microbial Interface Biology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Barbara Eker
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Heidrun Rath
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Affiliation TB Surveillance, Public Health Department, Lübeck, Germany
- Robert Hoerster
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Waltraud Wappler
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Andrea Glaewe
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Volker Schoellhorn
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Affiliation Autoimmun Diagnostika GmbH, Straßberg, Germany
- Giovanni Sotgiu
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Affiliation Hygiene and Preventive Medicine Institute, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Christoph Lange
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* E-mail: clange@fz-borstel.de
Affiliation Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
Competing Interests
ELISPOT plates and reagents were kindly provided free of charge by Autoimmun Diagnostika (AID), Strasberg, Germany. One of the co-authors, V. Schoellhorn is the CEO of AID. However, AID does not hold any patents in the antigens used in this study (ESAT-6 or CFP-10 ). The affiliation of V. Schoellhorn with AID does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BK HR VS CL. Performed the experiments: BK ME NR BE HR RH WW AG CL. Analyzed the data: BK AS ME NR HR GS CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ME NR VS. Wrote the paper: BK AS NR CL.