About the Authors

Beena Elizabeth Thomas

beenaelli09@gmail.com

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre), ICMR, Chennai, India

Poonguzhali Shanmugam

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre), ICMR, Chennai, India

Muniyandi Malaisamy

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre), ICMR, Chennai, India

Senthanro Ovung

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre), ICMR, Chennai, India

Chandra Suresh

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre), ICMR, Chennai, India

Ramnath Subbaraman

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Srividya Adinarayanan

Affiliation Vector Control Research Centre, ICMR, Pondicherry, India

Karikalan Nagarajan

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre), ICMR, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT PS MM SO. Analyzed the data: BT PS MM SO. Wrote the paper: BT PS MM SO CS RS SA KN. Grading score: PS RS.