Post-TB lung disease in three African countries

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
² Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
³ Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴ Epidemiological Laboratory (Epi-Lab) for Public Health, Research and Development, Khartoum, Sudan.
⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, Centre for Health Solutions-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Education for Health Africa, Durban, South Africa.
⁷ Division of Epidemiology Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁸ University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁹ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

A B Binegdie et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2022.

. 2022 Sep 1;26(9):891-893.

doi: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0261.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
² Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
³ Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴ Epidemiological Laboratory (Epi-Lab) for Public Health, Research and Development, Khartoum, Sudan.
⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, Centre for Health Solutions-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Education for Health Africa, Durban, South Africa.
⁷ Division of Epidemiology Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁸ University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁹ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: none declared.

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