About the Authors

Durba Paul

pauld@rntcp.org

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization (WHO), New Delhi, India

Arundhathi Busireddy

Affiliation District TB Office, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh, India

Sharath Burugina Nagaraja

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization (WHO), New Delhi, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India

Puneet Kumar Dewan

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization (WHO), New Delhi, India

Sreenivas Achutan Nair

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India

Silajit Sarkar

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization (WHO), New Delhi, India

Quazi Toufique Ahmed

Affiliation Office of the WHO-Representative in India, World Health Organization (WHO), New Delhi, India

Shakuntala Sarkar

Affiliation District TB Center, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India

Sreenivas Rao Motta Shamrao

Affiliation Directorate of Health Services, State TB Office, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India

Anthony David Harries

Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

John Ethan Oeltmann

Affiliation Division of TB Elimination, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DP AB SBN. Performed the experiments: DP AB SBN SS SRMS QTA. Analyzed the data: DP AB SBN SS PD SAN ADH JEO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP AB SBN SS PD SAN ADH JEO. Wrote the paper: DP AB SBN SS PD SAN ADH JEO.