About the Authors

Nitika Pant Pai

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Nitika.Pai@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Immunodeficiency Service, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada

Rajnish Joshi

Affiliation Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra, India

Sandeep Dogra

Affiliation Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences, Jammu, India

Bharati Taksande

Affiliation Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra, India

S.P. Kalantri

Affiliation Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra, India

Madhukar Pai

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Pratibha Narang

Affiliation Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra, India

Jacqueline P. Tulsky

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Arthur L. Reingold

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR MP NP SK PN JT. Performed the experiments: NP RJ SD BT. Analyzed the data: MP NP RJ SD SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR NP RJ SD BT SK PN JT. Wrote the paper: AR MP NP RJ BT SK JT. Other: Critical revision of the manuscript: AR MP NP RJ SD SK PN JT. Supervision: AR MP SK PN JT. Administrative support: AR SK PN. Technical support: AR MP PN JT. Lead investigator: NP. Project Manager: RJ. Supervised conduct of the study: BT.