About the Authors
- The PLOS Medicine Editors
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* E-mail: medicine_editors@plos.org
Affiliation Public Library of Science, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Andrew Beck
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ewan Birney
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Affiliation Joint Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Manuel Graeber
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Affiliation Neuropathologist and Director, Brain Tumour Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- James Tumwine
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Affiliation Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
- Phillipa Hay
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Hyeong Sik Ahn
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Anushka Patel
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Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Philipp du Cros
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Affiliation Head of the Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, United Kingdom
- Lorenz von Seidlein
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Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Nick Wareham
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nicola Low
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The following authors have no competing interests to declare: HSA, NW. The PLOS Medicine Editors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). EB is a paid consultant to Oxford Nanopore. PdC is a member of the Steering Committee for TB-PRACTECAL, a randomised control trial, and a member of the European Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Control. LvS, AP, JT, PH, MG, NL, AB are all members of the PLOS Medicine Editorial Board.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: TM LvS AP JT PH MG NL AB HSA NW EB PdC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CG TM LN SP LP PS LvS AP JT PH MG NL AB HSA NW EB PdC. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: CG TM LN SP LP PS LvS AP JT PH MG NL AB HSA NW EB PdC. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.