About the Authors
- Christian Lienhardt
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* E-mail: lienhardtc@who.int
Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
- Knut Lönnroth
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Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dick Menzies
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Affiliation Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Manica Balasegaram
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Affiliation Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jeremiah Chakaya
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Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya
- Frank Cobelens
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Affiliation Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Jennifer Cohn
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Affiliation Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland
- Claudia M. Denkinger
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Affiliation FIND Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Thomas G. Evans
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Affiliation Aeras, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Gunilla Källenius
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Gilla Kaplan
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Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Ajay M. V. Kumar
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Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India
- Line Matthiessen
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Affiliation DG Research & Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
- Charles S. Mgone
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Affiliation The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), The Hague, The Netherlands
- Valerie Mizrahi
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Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Ya-diul Mukadi
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Affiliation USAID, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- Viet Nhung Nguyen
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Affiliation National TB Programme, National Lung Hospital, Hanoi, Viet Nam
- Anders Nordström
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Affiliation Ambassador for Global Health, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
- Christine F. Sizemore
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Affiliation Tuberculosis, Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Melvin Spigelman
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Affiliation Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, New York, United States of America
- S. Bertel Squire
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Affiliation Centre for Applied Health Research & Delivery, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Soumya Swaminathan
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Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, India
- Paul D. Van Helden
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Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, MRC Centre for TB Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
- Alimuddin Zumla
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Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
- Karin Weyer
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Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
- Diana Weil
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Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
- Mario Raviglione
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Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
Competing Interests
CMD is employed by FIND, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with industry partners for the development, evaluation and demonstration of new diagnostic tests for poverty-related diseases. GKäl is co-founder of TBDiadirect AB, a start-up company aiming at developing the Uri-TB-direct diagnostic TB test. YM is working for USAID and has just received a donation of bedaquiline worth 30 million USD from Janssen. USAID is also funding several researches including clinical trials of short regimens for the treatment of MDR-TB, phase IIb clinical trials of novel TB drugs. SBS leads a multi-disciplinary research group with a focus on applied health research which generates knowledge for action in promoting equity in access to TB services. PDVH receives grants from the South African Medical Research Council and National Research Foundation to do unrestricted research on TB. In addition, PDVH received travel assistance for attendance at the European Society for Clinical Microbiology meeting in Copenhagen in 2015 to give a talk on his work. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) or of the European Commission.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CL KL DM MR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CL KL DM MB JCh FC JCo CMD TGE GKäl GKap AMVK LM CSM VM YM AN CFS MS SBS SS PDVH VNN AZ KW DW MR. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: CL KL DM MB JCh FC JCo CMD TGE GKäl GKap AMVK LM CSM VM YM AN CFS MS SBS SS PVDH VNN AZ KW DW MR. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.