Lee, Taehyung
Choi, Inseo
Lee, Hoyoun
Kim, Hyung Woo
Lee, Eung Gu
Park, Yeonhee
Jung, Sung Soo
Kim, Jin Woo
Oh, Jee Youn
Lee, Heayon
Kim, Seung Hoon
Kim, Sun-Hyung
Lyu, Jiwon
Kwon, Sun Jung
Jeong, Yun-Jeong
Koo, Hyeon-Kyoung
Kim, Ju Sang
Min, Jinsoo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korea National Institute of Health (2025E200100)
Article History
Received: 23 March 2026
Accepted: 1 May 2026
First Online: 13 June 2026
Declarations
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: This study used data derived from four prospective tuberculosis cohort studies. All studies were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the respective institutional review boards. The COSMOTB pilot phase (2016–2018) protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Chungbuk National University Hospital (No. 2016-10-003). The COSMOTB phase 1 study (2019–2021) was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Catholic University of Korea (IRB No. C19ONDI0458), and the subsequent COSMOTB phase 2 study (2022–2024) was approved by the same institution (IRB No. XC22ENDI0023). The SAFE-TB study (2020–2022) was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Catholic University of Korea (IRB No. XC20ENDI0086). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to enrollment.
: The authors declare no competing interests.