About the Authors
- Luis Eduardo Cuevas
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* E-mail: lcuevas@liv.ac.uk
Affiliations Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland
- Mohammed Ahmed Yassin
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Najla Al-Sonboli
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Affiliation Medical Faculty, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
- Lovett Lawson
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Affiliation Zankli Medical Center, Abuja, Nigeria
- Isabel Arbide
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Affiliation Bushullo Major Health Centre, Awassa, Ethiopia
- Nasher Al-Aghbari
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Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Sana'a, Yemen
- Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand
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Affiliation Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Amin Al-Absi
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Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Sana'a, Yemen
- Emmanuel Nnamdi Emenyonu
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Affiliation Zankli Medical Center, Abuja, Nigeria
- Yared Merid
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Affiliation Southern Region Health Bureau, Awassa, Ethiopia
- Mosis Ifenyi Okobi
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Affiliation Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria
- Juliana Olubunmi Onuoha
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Affiliation Zankli Medical Center, Abuja, Nigeria
- Melkamsew Aschalew
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Affiliation Southern Region Health Bureau, Awassa, Ethiopia
- Abraham Aseffa
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Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Greg Harper
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Rachel Mary Anderson de Cuevas
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Kristin Kremer
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Affiliation Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Dick van Soolingen
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Affiliation Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Carl-Michael Nathanson
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Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jean Joly
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Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland
- Brian Faragher
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Stephen Bertel Squire
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Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Andrew Ramsay
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Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund/United Nations Development Programme/World Bank/World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland
Competing Interests
AR is employed by WHO/TDR the organization which administered the USAID and BMGF grants that funded the study. AR is Secretary of the New Diagnostics Working Group, Stop TB Partnership.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: LEC MAY NAS LL IA NAA JBS AAA ENE YM MIO JOO MA AA GH RMAdC KK DvS CMN JJ BF SBS AR. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: LEC MAY NAS LL IA NAA JBS AAA ENE YM MIO JOO MA AA GH RMAdC KK DvS CMN JJ BF SBS AR. Designed the experiments/the study: LEC MAY JJ BF AR. Analyzed the data: LEC MAY JBS RMAdC KK DvS BF AR. Collected data/did experiments for the study: NAS LL IA NAA JBS ENE YM MIO JOO MA AA GH RMAdC KK. Enrolled patients: NAS IA NAA JBS AAA ENE MIO JOO. Wrote the first draft of the paper: LEC MAY AR. Contributed to the writing of the paper: LEC MAY NAS LL NAA JBS AA RMAdC KK DvS CMN BF SBS AR. Principal Investigator: LEC. Initiators of the study: LEC MAY. Co-principal Investigator: MAY. Responsible for and supervised study in Yemen: NA-S. Responsible for and supervised study in Nigeria: LL. Responsible for and supervised the study in Bushulo Major Health Centre, Ethiopia: IA. Responsible for and supervised study in Yemen: NA-A. Responsible for and supervised study in Nepal: JBS. Responsible for the laboratory experiments conducted for the study in Nigeria: ENE. Contributed to laboratory testing, culture of specimens, and implementation of the EQA in Ethiopia: YM AA. Collection and examination of sputum samples in the laboratory: JOO. Contributed to EQA: GH. Contribution to overall management of study at international level: AR.