About the Authors

Karolien Stoffels

Affiliation National Reference Centre of Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Caroline Allix-Béguec

Affiliations National Reference Centre of Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium, Genoscreen, Lille, France

Guido Groenen

Affiliation Belgian Lung and Tuberculosis Association, Brussels, Belgium

Maryse Wanlin

Affiliation Belgian Lung and Tuberculosis Association, Brussels, Belgium

Dirk Berkvens

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Vanessa Mathys

vmathys@wiv-isp.be (VM); maryse.fauville@gmail.com (MF)

Affiliation National Reference Centre of Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Philip Supply

Affiliations INSERM, U1019, Lille, France, CNRS UMR 8204, Lille, France, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France, Université Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

Maryse Fauville-Dufaux

vmathys@wiv-isp.be (VM); maryse.fauville@gmail.com (MF)

Affiliation National Reference Centre of Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

Philip Supply is a consultant for Genoscreen; Caroline Allix-Béguec is an employee of the same company. All other authors: no conflict. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF-D. Performed the experiments: KS CA-B. Analyzed the data: KS CA-B GG MW VM MF-D. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS CA-B GG MW DB VM MF-D. Wrote the paper: KS CA-B GG MW DB VM PS MF-D

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