About the Authors

Ramona Groenheit

ramona.groenheit@smi.se

Affiliation Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Solomon Ghebremichael

Affiliation Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Alexandra Pennhag

Affiliation Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Jerker Jonsson

Affiliation Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Sven Hoffner

Affiliation Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

David Couvin

Affiliation Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria Unit, WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe, France

Tuija Koivula

Affiliations Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Nalin Rastogi

Affiliation Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria Unit, WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe, France

Gunilla Källenius

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GK. Performed the experiments: RG SG AP DC NR. Analyzed the data: RG SG AP JJ SH DC TK NR GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJ DC NR. Wrote the paper: RG SG AP SH TK NR GK.