About the Authors

Neeraj Raizada

drneerajraizada@gmail.com

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Sreenivas Achuthan Nair

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

Shubhangi Kulsange

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Radhey Shayam Gupta

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Rahul Thakur

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Malik Parmar

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

Christen Gray

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Ranjani Ramachandran

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

Bhavin Vadera

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Shobha Ekka

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Shikha Dhawan

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Ameet Babre

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Mayank Ghedia

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

Umesh Alavadi

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Puneet Dewan

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

Mini Khetrapal

Affiliation District Tuberculosis Center, Mumbai, India

Ashwini Khanna

Affiliation District Tuberculosis Center, New Delhi, India

Catharina Boehme

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramsivan

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.