About the Authors

Tianyu Zhang

Affiliations Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Si-Yang Li

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Eric L. Nuermberger

enuermb@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict: Johns Hopkins University has filed a provisional patent application, (filing # 61/524,106), entitled ‘Auto-luminescent Mycobacterial Reporter Strains’, listing TZ and EN as inventors. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ EN. Performed the experiments: TZ SL. Analyzed the data: TZ EN. Wrote the paper: TZ EN.