About the Authors

Shibu Balakrishnan

balakrishnans@rntcp.org

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Office of the WHO Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Shibu Vijayan

Affiliation International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases, South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Sanjeev Nair

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Jayasankar Subramoniapillai

Affiliation State TB Cell, Directorate of Health Services, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Sunilkumar Mrithyunjayan

Affiliation State TB Cell, Directorate of Health Services, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Nevin Wilson

Affiliation International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases, South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases, South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Puneet K. Dewan

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Office of the WHO Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Ajay M. V. Kumar

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Office of the WHO Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Durai Karthickeyan

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Office of the WHO Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Matthew Willis

Affiliation Epidemic Intelligence Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of TB Elimination, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Anthony D. Harries

Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sreenivas Achuthan Nair

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Office of the WHO Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB SV SN JS SM NW SS PKD AMVK MW ADH SAN. Performed the experiments: SB SV SN JS SM DSAK. Analyzed the data: SB SV SN SS AMVK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB SV SN JS SM SS AMVK. Wrote the paper: SB SV SN. Provided comments and inputs to revise manuscript: JS SM NW SS PKD AMVK MW ADH SAN.