About the Authors

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Neeraj Raizada

drneerajraizada@gmail.com

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Achuthan Sreenivas

Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India

Anna H. van't Hoog

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center and Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Susan van den Hof

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center and Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands

Puneet K. Dewan

Current address: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, New Delhi, India

Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India

Rahul Thakur

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

R. S. Gupta

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Shubhangi Kulsange

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Bhavin Vadera

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Ameet Babre

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Christen Gray

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Malik Parmar

Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India

Mayank Ghedia

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Ranjani Ramachandran

Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India

Umesh Alavadi

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Nimalan Arinaminpathy

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Claudia Denkinger

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Catharina Boehme

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

C. N. Paramasivan

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: NR, BV, SK, AB, RT, CG, UA, CB and CNP are employed by FIND, a non-profit organization that collaborates with industry partners, including Cepheid Inc., for the development and evaluation of new diagnostic tests. Sreenivas A, Parmar M, Ramchandran R and Dewan P are staff members of WHO. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of WHO.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NR BV SK AB PKD CB KSS RSG AS MP MG RR. Performed the experiments: NR BV SK AB RT UA. Analyzed the data: NR BV SK AB CNP AHVH SVDH NA CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NR. Wrote the paper: NR SK AHVH SVDH CD PKD KSS.