Appeal from the European tuberculosis reference laboratory network (ERLTB-Net) for improving the diagnosis of infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria

Affiliations

• ¹ Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
• ² Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; National and WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.
• ³ National and WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden.
• ⁴ National and WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁵ Université Paris Cité, IAME Inserm UMR 1137, Service de Mycobactériologie Spécialisée et de Référence, Laboratoire Associé Du CNR des Mycobactéries et de La Résistance des Mycobactéries Aux Antituberculeux (CNR-MyRMA) APHP GHU Paris Nord, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France. Electronic address: [email protected].