About the Authors

Rajesh D. Deshmukh

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajesh D. Deshmukh, D. J. Dhande

pohivtb.naco@gmail.com

Current address: Department of AIDS Control (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

D. J. Dhande

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajesh D. Deshmukh, D. J. Dhande

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Drug Resistant TB centre, Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Achuthan Sreenivas

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

A. M. V. Kumar

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South East Asia Office, New Delhi, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Malik Parmar

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

Patrick K. Moonan

Affiliation Division of TB Elimination, International Research Programs Branch, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georiga, United States of America

Terrence Q. Lo

Affiliation Division of TB Elimination, International Research Programs Branch, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georiga, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDD. Performed the experiments: RDD DJD. Analyzed the data: RDD DJD TQL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDD DJD. Wrote the paper: RDD DJD KSS AMVK AS SS MP PKM TQL.