A novel whole-blood miRNA signature for a rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Human Genetics Department, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Infection Biology Laboratory, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Badalona, Spain These authors contributed equally to this work.
• ² Human Genetics Department, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany These authors contributed equally to this work.
• ³ Clinical Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• ⁴ CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Badalona, Spain Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
• ⁵ Unitat de Tuberculosis Vall d'Hebron-Drassanes, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁶ Serveis Clínics de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷ CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Badalona, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain.
• ⁸ Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁹ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Ingbert, Germany.
• ¹¹ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹² Human Genetics Department, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• ¹³ Infection Biology Laboratory, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain [email protected].