About the Authors

Sairu Philip

sairuphilip09@gmail.com

Affiliation Government T.D. Medical College, Alappuzha, Kerala State, India

Petros Isaakidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Petros Isaakidis, Ajay M. V. Kumar

Affiliation Operational Research Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, India

Karuna D. Sagili

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

Asanarupillai Meharunnisa

Affiliation Government T.D. Medical College, Alappuzha, Kerala State, India

Sunilkumar Mrithyunjayan

Affiliation State TB Training and Demonstration Centre, State TB Cell, Directorate of Health Services, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Ajay M. V. Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Petros Isaakidis, Ajay M. V. Kumar

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP PI KDS AM SM AMVK. Performed the experiments: SP. Analyzed the data: SP PI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP PI KDS AM SM AMVK. Wrote the paper: SP PI KDS AM SM AMVK. Contributed to discussion: SP PI KDS AM SM AMVK.