About the Authors

Sunil Khaparde

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Neeraj Raizada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

drneerajraizada@gmail.com

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Sreenivas Achuthan Nair

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation World Health Organization, Delhi, India

Claudia Denkinger

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramasivan

Roles Validation

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

Virender Singh Salhotra

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Anna Vassall

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Anja van't Hoog

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I declare that NR, CD and CNP are employed by FIND, a non-profit organization that collaborates with industry partners, including Cepheid Inc., for the development and evaluation of new diagnostic tests. These partners with whom we have partnered have in no way contributed to the study and would not be benefited by the results of the study. As such this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and there is no conflict of interest to the publication of this article.