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Authors
Epple, Hans-Jörg
Domaszewska, Teresa
Brünneck, Ann-Christin von
Furth, Christian
Dommerich, Steffen
Lange, Christoph
Schöning, Dinah von
Maschmeyer, Georg
Bös, Lena
Schwartz, Stefan
Schneider, Thomas
Mathas, Stephan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9626-1413
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Article History
Received: 19 March 2025
Accepted: 27 October 2025
First Online: 23 December 2025
Declarations
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: Patient case: Ethics declaration: Not applicable. Informed consent of the LCH patient was obtained prior to submission. Epidemiological data: The German national TB-surveillance data utilized in this study are routinely collected under the Robert Koch Institute´s legal mandate for national surveillance of infectious diseases in Germany, for the notification data in accordance with the German Protection again Infection law (Infektionsschutzgesetz). Data collected under this surveillance mandate are pseudonymized and no personal identifiable information such as names, personal or health IDs, or exact birth dates are collected. Therefore, ethics approval and consent to participate were deemed not necessary for the analysis of the German TB-surveillance data.
: Written informed consent of the patient was obtained prior to submission. The German national TB-surveillance data utilized in this study are routinely collected under the Robert Koch Institute´s legal mandate for national surveillance of infectious diseases in Germany, and no consent for publication for the use of these pseudonymized data is required.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
