Tackling two pandemics: a plea on World Tuberculosis Day

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Social Medicine, Infectious diseases, and Migration (SIM) Group, Department of Global Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK. Electronic address: tom.wingfield@lstmed.ac.uk.
² Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Zankli Research Centre, Bingham University, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
³ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi; Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
⁵ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.

Tom Wingfield et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;8(6):536-538.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30151-X. Epub 2020 Mar 24.

¹ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Social Medicine, Infectious diseases, and Migration (SIM) Group, Department of Global Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK. Electronic address: tom.wingfield@lstmed.ac.uk.
² Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Zankli Research Centre, Bingham University, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
³ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi; Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
⁵ Departments of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK; Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.

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