About the Authors

Liza Bronner Murrison

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ramya Ananthakrishnan

Affiliation REACH, Chennai, India

Sumanya Sukumar

Affiliation REACH, Chennai, India

Sheela Augustine

Affiliation REACH, Chennai, India

Nalini Krishnan

Affiliation REACH, Chennai, India

Madhukar Pai

Affiliation McGill International TB Centre & Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

David W. Dowdy

ddowdy1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no financial or industry conflicts. MP serves as a consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). BMGF had no involvement in this manuscript. MP and DD are Section Editors with PLOS ONE. MP is on the editorial board of PLOS Medicine. This did not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LBM DD RA MP. Performed the experiments: RA SS SA LBM. Analyzed the data: LBM DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LBM RA SS SA NK MP DD. Wrote the paper: LBM DD RA MP SS SA NK.