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Giovanni Battista Migliori, Dennis Falzon, Guy B. Marks, Delia Goletti, Tereza Kasaeva, Susanna Esposito, Marc Humbert

European Respiratory Journal 2022 59: 2200149; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00149-2022

Extract

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health concern worldwide. In 2020, it was the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), above HIV/AIDS. In 2020 a total of 1.5 million people died from TB, while about 10 million people are estimated to have suffered from the disease: 5.6 million men, 3.3 million women and 1.1 million children [1].

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Footnotes

• Conflict of interest: D. Goletti reports grants from Biomerieux and Quidel; consulting fees from Biomerieux, Quidel, Qiagen and PDB Biotec; lecture honoraria from Biomerieux, Quidel, Amgen, Biogen, Celgene, Janssen and Diasorin; and participation on advisory boards for Biomerieux, PDB Biotec and Lilly; outside the submitted work. All other authors have nothing to disclose.

• Received January 21, 2022.
• Accepted February 1, 2022.

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