About the Authors

Tran N. Buu

Affiliation Tuberculosis Control Department, Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Dick van Soolingen

Affiliations Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute of Public Health and The Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Saint Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Mai N. T. Huyen

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen T. N. Lan

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Hoang T. Quy

Affiliation Medical Department, Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Edine W. Tiemersma

Affiliations Asia Department, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kristin Kremer

Affiliation Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security & Environment,World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Martien W. Borgdorff

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Cluster, Amsterdam Municipal Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Frank G. J. Cobelens

f.cobelens@aighd.org

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TNB DvS NTNL MWB FGJC. Performed the experiments: MNTH KK. Analyzed the data: TNB MNTH FGJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DvS NTNL HTQ KK. Wrote the paper: TNB DvS MNTH NTNL HTQ EWT KK MWB FGJC.