About the Authors

Iacopo Baussano

i.baussano06@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Unit, UPO “A.Avogadro” and CPO-Piemonte, Novara, Italy, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Brian G. Williams

Affiliation Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Paul Nunn

Affiliation Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Marta Beggiato

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, UPO “A.Avogadro” and CPO-Piemonte, Novara, Italy

Ugo Fedeli

Affiliation SER, Epidemiological Department, Veneto Region, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

Fabio Scano

Affiliation Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: IB BGW PN MB UF FS. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: IB BGW PN MB UF FS. Designed the experiments/the study: IB BGW UF FS. Analyzed the data: IB MB FS. Collected data/did experiments for the study: IB MB UF. Wrote the first draft of the paper: IB. Contributed to the writing of the paper: IB BGW PN MB UF FS. Developed and supervised the area of work for the WHO policy on TB infection control, for which this paper formed one of the systematic reviews: PN.