About the Authors
- Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva
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Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- Neeraj Raizada
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* E-mail: drneerajraizada@gmail.com
Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Achuthan Sreenivas
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Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India
- Anna H. van't Hoog
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Affiliation Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center and Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Susan van den Hof
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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
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Current address: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, New Delhi, India
Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India
- Rahul Thakur
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- R. S. Gupta
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Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- Shubhangi Kulsange
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Bhavin Vadera
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Ameet Babre
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Christen Gray
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Malik Parmar
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Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India
- Mayank Ghedia
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Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- Ranjani Ramachandran
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Affiliation World Health Organization, India Country Office, New Delhi, India
- Umesh Alavadi
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Nimalan Arinaminpathy
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Claudia Denkinger
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Catharina Boehme
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
- C. N. Paramasivan
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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.