About the Authors

Hui Xia

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, BeiJing, People’s Republic of China

Yang Zheng

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, BeiJing, People’s Republic of China

Bing Zhao

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, BeiJing, People’s Republic of China

Susan van den Hof

Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands

Frank Cobelens

Affiliations KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

YanLin Zhao

zhaoyanlin@chinatb.org

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, BeiJing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YLZ. Formal analysis: HX. Funding acquisition: YLZ. Investigation: HX YZ BZ. Methodology: HX. Writing – original draft: HX. Writing – review & editing: SVH FC.