About the Authors

Manoj V. Murhekar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mmurhekar@nieicmr.org.in

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

Tarun Bhatnagar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

V. Saravanakumar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

Sriram Selvaraju

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Kiran Rade

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

C. P. Girish Kumar

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

R. Sabarinathan

Roles Data curation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

Smita Asthana

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, India

Rakesh Balachandar

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, India

Sampada Dipak Bangar

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Avi Kumar Bansal

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India

Jyothi Bhat

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, India

Debjit Chakraborty

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Vishal Chopra

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State TB Training and Demonstration Centre, Patiala, India

Dasarathi Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India

Kangjam Rekha Devi

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–Regional Medical Research Centre, N. E. Region, Dibrugarh, India

Gaurav Raj Dwivedi

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–Regional Medical Research Centre, Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, India

Agam Jain

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State TB Office, Dehradun, India

S. Muhammad Salim Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Government Medical College, Srinagar, Srinagar, India

M. Sunil Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State TB Training and Demonstration Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Avula Laxmaiah

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India

Major Madhukar

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India

Amarendra Mahapatra

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India

Talluri Ramesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State TB Office, Hyderabad, India

Chethana Rangaraju

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore, India

Jyotirmayee Turuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India

Suresh Yadav

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S. Muhammad Salim Khan, M. Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR–National Institute for Implementation Research on Non-Communicable Diseases, Jodhpur, India

Balram Bhargava

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

on behalf of the ICMR serosurveillance group

Membership of the ICMR serosurveillance group is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.