About the Authors

Debashish Kundu

debashishkundu@yahoo.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 Office, New Delhi, India and Paris, France

Srinath Satyanarayana

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

Puneet Kumar Dewan

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

Sreenivas Achuthan Nair

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

Priyakanta Nayak

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

Rafael Van den Bergh

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels (OCB), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Marcel Manzi

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels (OCB), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Donald A. Enarson

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

Madhav Rao Deshpande

Affiliation Directorate of Health Services, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

Sachin Chandraker

Affiliation Intermediate Reference Laboratory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK AK SS DE SAN PKD RVDB MM. Performed the experiments: DK KK PN MD SC. Analyzed the data: DK AK SS DE KK SAN PKD RVDB MM PN MD SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK AK SS DE KK PN RVDB MM MD SC. Wrote the paper: DK AK SS DE PKD.