The inflammation markers CRP and ESR were significantly higher in the symptomatic compared to the asymptomatic TB group (77 mg/L [36–95] vs. 24 mg/L [3]–[18], p = 0.017 and 67 mm [50–80] vs. 43 mm [27–56], p = 0.028, respectively), but CRP and ESR could not discriminate between pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB. Here, ESR1 is linked to tuberculosis.