About the Authors

Anna S. Dean

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

deanan@who.int

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Matteo Zignol

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Dennis Falzon

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Philippe Glaziou

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Daniela Maria Cirillo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Claudio U. Köser

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lice Y. Gonzalez-Angulo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Olga Tosas-Auget

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

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Nazir Ismail

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sabira Tahseen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Reference Laboratory, National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

Maria Cecilia G. Ama

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Reference Laboratory, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Alena Skrahina

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis, Minsk, Belarus

Natavan Alikhanova

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Main Medical Department, Ministry of Justice, Baku, Azerbaijan

S. M. Mostofa Kamal

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Reference Laboratory, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Katherine Floyd

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CUK is a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and QuantuMDx Group Ltd. CUK is an unpaid advisor to GenoScreen. CUK consulted for Becton Dickinson and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, which involved work for Cepheid Inc., Hain Lifescience, and WHO. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Janssen Pharmaceutica, and PerkinElmer covered CUK’s travel and accommodation to present at meetings. The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development Inc. and Otsuka Novel Products GmbH have supplied CUK with antibiotics for in vitro research. YD Diagnostics has provided assays for an evaluation by CUK. MCGA works with a government agency that provides technical advice to the National TB Control Program. Her agency also works closely with the Department of Health on matters of policy.