Pro-inflammatory neutrophils also highly expressed FKBP5 and CEBPD, both implicated in an immunometabolic network predictive of TB progression (Duffy et al., 2019), and VEGFA, PLAUR, TPM4, and CD44, which are involved in neutrophil recruitment and lymphangiogenesis during inflammation (Adams et al., 2021; He et al., 2024; Tan et al., 2013; Zhou et al., 2021) (Data S8). This evidence concerns the gene CEBPD and tuberculosis.