About the Authors

William R. Mac Kenzie

wrm0@cdc.gov

Affiliation Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Charles M. Heilig

Affiliation Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lorna Bozeman

Affiliation Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John L. Johnson

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Grace Muzanye

Affiliation Uganda-Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration, Makerere University, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, United States of America

Denise Dunbar

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Mycology Laboratory, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Kenneth C. Jost Jr

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Mycology Laboratory, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Lois Diem

Affiliation Laboratory Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Beverly Metchock

Affiliation Laboratory Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kathleen Eisenach

Affiliation University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Susan Dorman

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Stefan Goldberg

Affiliation Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Data Interpretation: WRM LB JLJ DD KCJ BM KE SD SG. Critical Revision of Manuscript: SD LB JLJ SG GM DD KCJ LD BM KE. Conceived and designed the experiments: ARM CMH SG. Performed the experiments: LB JLJ GM DD KCJ LD BM KE. Analyzed the data: CMH. Wrote the paper: WRM CMH.