About the Authors
- Joshua A Salomon
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jsalomon@hsph.harvard.edu
Affiliations Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- James O Lloyd-Smith
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Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Wayne M Getz
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Stephen Resch
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Affiliation Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- María S Sánchez
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Travis C Porco
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Affiliation California Department of Public Health Services, Tuberculosis Control Branch, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Martien W Borgdorff
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Affiliations KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands , Department of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, and AIDS, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
All authors contributed to the development of the model and final preparation of the manuscript. JAS, JOLS, WMG, SR, and MSS contributed to programming and numerical simulation of various versions of the model. MWB led the collation and interpretation of data on natural history, epidemiology, and program-related variables. JAS was responsible for parameterization of the final model and scenario analyses and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. JAS and JOLS wrote the first draft of the technical appendix.