About the Authors

George W. Reed

Affiliation Department of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hongjo Choi

Affiliation International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea

So Young Lee

Affiliation International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Myungsun Lee

Affiliation International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Youngran Kim

Affiliation International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Hyemi Park

Affiliation International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Jongseok Lee

Affiliation International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Xin Zhan

Affiliation Information Services Department, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hyeungseok Kang

Affiliation National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea

SooHee Hwang

Affiliation National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Matthew Carroll

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ying Cai

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sang-Nae Cho

Affiliations International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Republic of Korea, Department of Microbiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Clifton E. Barry III

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Laura E. Via

Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hardy Kornfeld

hardy.kornfeld@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB LEV SNC HK. Performed the experiments: HC ML YK HP JL HSK SHH SYL MC. Analyzed the data: GR HC XZ YC HK. Wrote the paper: GR HK.