About the Authors

Elizabeth P. Harausz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

epharausz@gmail.com(EPH); annekeh@sun.ac.za (ACH)

Affiliations Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, Military HIV Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony J. Garcia-Prats

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Stephanie Law

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

H. Simon Schaaf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Tamara Kredo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

James A. Seddon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for International Child Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Dick Menzies

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Anna Turkova

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, United Kingdom

Jay Achar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, United Kingdom

Farhana Amanullah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Pennan Barry

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Mercedes Becerra

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Partners In Health, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward D. Chan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Pei Chun Chan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Chronic Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

Domnica Ioana Chiotan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiological Surveillance Department, Romanian National TB Program, Bucharest, Romania

Aldo Crossa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter C. Drobac

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Partners In Health, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lee Fairlie

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute (WRHI), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dennis Falzon

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratories, Diagnostics and Drug Resistance Unit, Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Jennifer Flood

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Medea Gegia

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Technical Support Coordination, Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Robert M. Hicks

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Petros Isaakidis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, Mumbai, India

SM Kadri

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Disease Control, Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, India

Beate Kampmann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Paediatric Infection & Immunity, Centre of International Child Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Vaccines & Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia

Shabir A. Madhi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Else Marais

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

Andrei Mariandyshev

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

Ana Méndez-Echevarría

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Brittany Kathryn Moore

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Parpieva Nargiza

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Republican Scientific Medical Center of Phtiziology and Pulmonology, Ministry of Health, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Iveta Ozere

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital, Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Riga, Latvia

Nesri Padayatchi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CAPRISA, MRC TB-HIV Pathogenesis Unit, Durban, South Africa

Saleem- ur-Rehman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Director Health Services, Kashmir, India

Natasha Rybak

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Begoña Santiago-Garcia

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

N. Sarita Shah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Sangeeta Sharma

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India

Tae Sun Shim

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

Alena Skrahina

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB, Minsk, Belarus

Antoni Soriano-Arandes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Unit of International Health-Tuberculosis Drassanes-Vall Hebron, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Martin van den Boom

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Joint Tuberculosis, HIV & Viral Hepatitis Programme, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marieke J. van der Werf

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Disease Programme Tuberculosis, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Tjip S. van der Werf

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Bhanu Williams

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Northwick Park Hospital, London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Elena Yablokova

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

Jae-Joon Yim

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Jennifer Furin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Anneke C. Hesseling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

epharausz@gmail.com(EPH); annekeh@sun.ac.za (ACH)

Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

for the Collaborative Group for Meta-Analysis of Paediatric Individual Patient Data in MDR-TB

Membership of the Collaborative Group for Meta-Analysis of Paediatric Individual Patient Data in MDR-TB is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DF, MG, and MvDB are staff members of the World Health Organization (WHO). AJGP's institution, Stellenbosch University, has received funds from the US National Institutes of Health for an observational study of the pharmacokinetics and safety of key second-line TB medications in children, for which AJGP is the Principal Investigator. AJGP's institution has also received funds from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals for implementation of pediatric trial of the novel TB drug delamanid; AJGP is the PI for his site for this trial.