About the Authors

Kiran Kumar Kondapaka

kiran033@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Surapaneni Venkateswara Prasad

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Subhakar Kandi

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Rony Zachariah

Affiliation Medecins sans Frontieres, Medical Department (Operational Research), Brussels Operational Center, Brussels, Luxembourg

Anthony David Harries

Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sharath Burugina Nagaraja

Affiliation Office of the WHO Representative in India, New Delhi, India

Shailaja Tetali

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India (Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad), Hyderabad, India

Raghupathy Anchala

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India (Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad), Hyderabad, India

Nanda Kishore Kannuri

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India (Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad), Hyderabad, India

Krishna Murthy

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Dhanamurthy Koppu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Latha Vangari

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Sreenivas Rao

Affiliation State Tuberculosis Office, Andhra Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK SVP SS SK RZ ADH SBN ST RA NK KM DK SR. Performed the experiments: KK SVP SS SK RZ ADH SBN ST RA NK KM DK SR. Analyzed the data: KK SVP SS RZ ADH SBN ST RA NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK SVP SS SK RZ ADH SBN ST RA NK KM DK SR LV. Wrote the paper: KK SVP SS SK RZ ADH SBN ST RA NK KM DK SR LV.