About the Authors

Yanina Balabanova

y.balabanova@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliations Queen Mary College, Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom, Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy

Affiliation Queen Mary College, Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Olga Ignatyeva

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Irina Kontsevaya

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Clare M. Rutterford

Affiliation Queen Mary College, Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Anastasiya Shakhmistova

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Nadezhda Malomanova

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Yulia Chinkova

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Svetlana Mironova

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Ivan Fedorin

Affiliation Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russia

Francis A. Drobniewski

Affiliation Queen Mary College, Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FAD YB VN OI NM YC IF. Performed the experiments: OI IK SM YC. Analyzed the data: YB CMR AS NM FAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IF NM YC. Wrote the paper: YB FAD.