About the Authors
- Christina Yoon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christina Yoon, Adithya Cattamanchi
Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Adithya Cattamanchi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christina Yoon, Adithya Cattamanchi
* E-mail: acattamanchi@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Curry International Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- J. Lucian Davis
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Curry International Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- William Worodria
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
- Saskia den Boon
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Affiliation Makerere University-University of California San Francisco Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
- Nelson Kalema
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Affiliation Makerere University-University of California San Francisco Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
- Winceslaus Katagira
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Affiliation Makerere University-University of California San Francisco Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
- Sylvia Kaswabuli
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Affiliation Makerere University-University of California San Francisco Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
- Cecily Miller
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Alfred Andama
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Heidi Albert
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Kampala, Uganda
- Pamela Nabeta
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Christen Gray
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Irene Ayakaka
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Affiliation Makerere University-University of California San Francisco Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
- Laurence Huang
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, HIV/AIDS Division, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: 1) AC is an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. 2) HA, PN and CG work for the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to drive the development and early implementation of diagnostic tests that have a high impact on patient care in low and middle-resource settings. FIND partnered with Cepheid in the development and initial evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AC JLD. Performed the experiments: WW SdB NK WK SK IA. Analyzed the data: CY AC JLD CM. Wrote the paper: CY AC. Critically reviewed the manuscript: LH JLD PN SdB WW HA CG. Approved the final manuscript: CY AC JLD WW SdB NK WK SK CM AA HA PN CG IA LH.