About the Authors
- Nino Lomtadze
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Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Lali Kupreishvili
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Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Archil Salakaia
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Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Sergo Vashakidze
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Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Lali Sharvadze
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Russell R. Kempker
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Matthew J. Magee
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Carlos del Rio
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Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Henry M. Blumberg
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* E-mail: henry.m.blumberg@emory.edu
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NL LK AS SV HMB. Performed the experiments: NL LK LS. Analyzed the data: NL RRK MJM HMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CdR HMB. Wrote the manuscript: NL RRK MJM HMB. Reviewed the manuscript and approved its submission to PLoS ONE: NL LK AS SV LS RRK MJM CdR HMB.