About the Authors

Chunling Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunling Lu, Carole D. Mitnick

Chunling_Lu@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Global Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qing Liu

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aartik Sarma

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Fitzpatrick

Affiliation Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Dennis Falzon

Affiliation Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Carole D. Mitnick

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunling Lu, Carole D. Mitnick

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL CDM. Senior authors: CL CDM. Analyzed the data: CL QL. Wrote the paper: QL CL AS CF DF CDM.