About the Authors
- Neeraj Raizada
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* E-mail: drneerajraizada@gmail.com
Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva
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Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- Sreenivas Achuthan Nair
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Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
- Shubhangi Kulsange
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Radhey Shayam Gupta
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Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- Rahul Thakur
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Malik Parmar
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Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
- Christen Gray
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Ranjani Ramachandran
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Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
- Bhavin Vadera
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Shobha Ekka
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Shikha Dhawan
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Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- Ameet Babre
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Mayank Ghedia
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Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
- Umesh Alavadi
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
- Puneet Dewan
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Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
- Mini Khetrapal
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Affiliation District Tuberculosis Center, Mumbai, India
- Ashwini Khanna
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Affiliation District Tuberculosis Center, New Delhi, India
- Catharina Boehme
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramsivan
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India
Competing Interests
The authors declare that NR, SK, BV, SE, AB, RT, CG, UA, CB and CNP are employed by FIND, a non-profit organization that collaborates with industry partners, including Cepheid Inc., for the development and evaluation of new diagnostic tests. These partners with whom we have partnered have in no way contributed to the study and would not be benefited by the results of the study. As such this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and there is no conflict of interest to the publication of this article.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NR KSS SAN SK RSG RT MP CG RR BV SE SD MG PD MK AK CB CNP. Performed the experiments: NR KSS SK SE BV AB AK MK. Analyzed the data: NR KSS SK CG UA BV SAN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NR SAN. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NR SK KSS BV CNP MP SAN PD.