About the Authors

Edine W. Tiemersma

tiemersmae@kncvtbc.nl

Affiliations KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marieke J. van der Werf

Affiliations KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Martien W. Borgdorff

Affiliation Cluster Infectious Disease Control, Municipal Health Service (GGD) Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Brian G. Williams

Affiliation South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Nico J. D. Nagelkerke

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Statistical/mathematical analysis after discussion with all authors (in particular BW and MW): NN. Conceived and designed the experiments: EWT MJvdW MB BW NN. Performed the experiments: EWT NN. Analyzed the data: EWT NN. Wrote the paper: NN EWT.