About the Authors

Natalie Lorent

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalie Lorent, Kimcheng Choun

natalie.lorent@uzleuven.be

Current address: Pulmonary Medicine Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Department, Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Kimcheng Choun

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalie Lorent, Kimcheng Choun

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Department, Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Shelly Malhotra

Affiliation Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, New York, United States of America

Pichenda Koeut

Affiliation CENAT, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Sopheak Thai

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Department, Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Kim Eam Khun

Affiliation CENAT, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Robert Colebunders

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Epidemiology and Social Medicine Department, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Lut Lynen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL KC SM PK LL. Performed the experiments: KC PK. Analyzed the data: NL KC SM PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM PK ST KEK RC LL. Wrote the first draft: NL SM. Wrote the paper: NL KC SM PK ST KEK RC LL.