About the Authors
- Francine Matthys
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* E-mail: fmatthys@itg.be
Affiliation Epidemiological and Disease Control Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Leen Rigouts
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Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Vinciane Sizaire
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Affiliation Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium
- Natalia Vezhnina
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Affiliation HIV/TB Penal System Projects in Central Asian Republics, AIDS Foundation East-West, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan
- Maryvonne Lecoq
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Affiliation Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium
- Vera Golubeva
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Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Colony 33, Mariinsk, Kemorovo, Russia
- Françoise Portaels
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Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Patrick Van der Stuyft
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Affiliation Epidemiological and Disease Control Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Michael Kimerling
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Current address: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FM NV MK. Performed the experiments: LR VS NV ML VG FP. Analyzed the data: FM LR VS ML VG FP PVdS MK. Wrote the paper: FM LR VS NV ML VG FP PVdS MK. Provided interpretation of analysis, comments and writing of paper: PVdS.