About the Authors

Maryline Bonnet

maryline.bonnet@geneva.msf.org

Affiliation Clinical Research department, Epicentre, Geneva, Switzerland

Manuela Pardini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive Parassitarie e Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Francesca Meacci

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

Germano Orrù

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Odontostomatologiche, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Hasan Yesilkaya

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Thierry Jarosz

Affiliation Essai clinique Evaluation Epidemiologie Statistiques, Paris, France

Peter W. Andrew

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Mike Barer

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Francesco Checchi

Affiliation Clinical Research department, Epicentre, Geneva, Switzerland

Heinz Rinder

Affiliation Sachgebiet Parasitologie Bayerisches, Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Oberschleißheim, Germany

Graziella Orefici

Affiliation Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive Parassitarie e Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes

Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteriology, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Lanfranco Fattorini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive Parassitarie e Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Marco Rinaldo Oggioni

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

Juliet Melzer

Affiliation Medical department, Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris, France

Stefan Niemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Niemann, Francis Varaine

Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteriology, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Francis Varaine

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Niemann, Francis Varaine

Affiliation Medical department, Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Bonnet MP HY PWA M. Barer FC HR LF MRO SN FV. Performed the experiments: MP FM G. Orrù HY PWA M. Barer HR G. Orefici SR-G LF MRO SN. Analyzed the data: M. Bonnet SN FV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP FM G. Orrù HY PWA M. Barer HR G. Orefici SR-G LF MRO SN. Wrote the paper: M. Bonnet SN FV. Data-management: TJ. Data-collection: JM. Coordinator of the Long Drug study: MRO.