About the Authors

Priyakanta Nayak

pikoo.2007@gmail.com

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Ajay M. V. Kumar

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Mareli Claassens

Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Donald A. Enarson

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Debashish Kundu

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Kshitij Khaparde

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Tarun K. Agrawal

Affiliation State Tuberculosis Office, Directorate of Health Services, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

Shankar Dapkekar

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Sachin Chandraker

Affiliation Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

Sreenivas Achuthan Nair

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PN AK MC SS SN. Performed the experiments: PN DK KK TA SC. Analyzed the data: PN AK MC SD DK KK TA SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PN AK MC DK KK SD TA DE SC. Wrote the manuscript: PN AK MC SN.