Some of the biomarkers validated in this study have been identified by other workers in the field previously as highly useful key components of other TB-diagnostic panels, e.g., GBP1, GBP2, LOC400759 (GBP1P1), GBP5, STAT1, IFIT3 & IFITM3 (110, 114, 115), adding confidence to our own observations. This evidence concerns the gene IFIT3 and tuberculosis.