About the Authors

Neeta Singla

docneetasingla@gmail.com

Affiliation National Institute of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases, Delhi, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Affiliation Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Rafael Van den Bergh

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Luxembourg

Tony Reid

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Luxembourg

Katherine Tayler-Smith

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Luxembourg

V. P. Myneedu

Affiliation National Institute of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases, Delhi, India

Engy Ali

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Luxembourg

Donald A. Enarson

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, Paris, France

Digamber Behera

Affiliation Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India

Rohit Sarin

Affiliation National Institute of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases, Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS SS KSS DE DB RS. Performed the experiments: NS VPM RS. Analyzed the data: NS SS RVDB KTS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS SS RVDB KTS VPM DB RS. Wrote the paper: NS SS KSS RVBD TR KTS VPM EA DE DB RS.