About the Authors

Jennifer R. Lim

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Neel R. Gandhi

neelgandhi@alumni.williams.edu

Affiliations Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thuli Mthiyane

Affiliation University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Koleka Mlisana

Affiliations University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa

Julie Moodley

Affiliation National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa

Prenika Jaglal

Affiliation National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa

Neeshan Ramdin

Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

James C. M. Brust

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Nazir Ismail

Affiliations Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Roxana Rustomjee

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

N. Sarita Shah

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NRG JCMB NSS. Performed the experiments: JM NR. Analyzed the data: JRL PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM KM NI RR. Wrote the paper: JRL NRG TM KM JCMB RR NSS.