About the Authors

Gretta Roberts

Current address: Governance Directorate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Affiliation Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom

Indumathi S. Vadrevu

Affiliation Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Murty V. Madiraju

Affiliation Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Tanya Parish

t.parish@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliations Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom, Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The GlaxoSmithKline Action TB Programme provided funding for part of the study, as well as access and assistance with microarray studies and assistance with data analysis for microarrays. This does not alter the authors′ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents or financial interests in the data presented. There are no restrictions on data sharing.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GR ISV MVM TP. Performed the experiments: GR ISV TP. Analyzed the data: GR MVM TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GR ISV MVM TP. Wrote the paper: MVM TP.