About the Authors

Andrew R. Miller

andymill@gmail.com

Affiliation Beyond Traditional Borders, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gregory L. Davis

Affiliation Beyond Traditional Borders, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Z. Maria Oden

Affiliations Beyond Traditional Borders, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mohamad Reza Razavi

Affiliation Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abolfazl Fateh

Affiliation Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Morteza Ghazanfari

Affiliation Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Farid Abdolrahimi

Affiliation Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Shahin Poorazar

Affiliation Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Sakhaie

Affiliation Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Randall J. Olsen

Affiliation Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ahmad Reza Bahrmand

Affiliations Department of Mycobacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mark C. Pierce

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Edward A. Graviss

Affiliation Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Affiliations Beyond Traditional Borders, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors from Rice University are co-inventors on a patent application filed by Rice University on the technology described in this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARM GLD ZMO ARB MP EAG RRK. Performed the experiments: ARM MRR AF MG FA SP FS RJO ARB MP. Analyzed the data: ARM MP EAG RRK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARM GLD ZMO MRR AF MG FA SP FS EAG. Wrote the paper: ARM RJO MP EAG RRK. Designed and fabricated initial prototype to be tested: ARM. Designed and built initial prototype: GLD.