About the Authors

Sabira Tahseen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood Khanzada, Tehmina Mustafa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sabira.tahseen@gmail.com

Affiliations National TB Reference Laboratory, National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan, Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Faisal Masood Khanzada

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood Khanzada, Tehmina Mustafa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Reference Laboratory, National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

Aurangzaib Quadir Baloch

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National TB Control Program, Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

Qasim Abbas

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial TB Control Program, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar, Pakistan

Mansoor Manzoor Bhutto

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Sindh Health Care Commission, Karachi, Pakistan

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Provincial Reference Laboratory, Provincial TB Control Program, Sindh, Karachi Pakistan

Ahmad Wali Alizai

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial TB Control Program, Government of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan

Shah Zaman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial TB Control Program, Government of Gilgit Baltistan, Gilgit, Pakistan

Zahida Qasim

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, District Head Quarter Hospital Mirpur, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan, Department of Health Azad Jammu Kashmir, District Head Quarter Hospital Mirpur, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

Muhammad Najeeb Durrani

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health, Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan

M. Khalid Farough

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation TB Project, Green Star Marketing, Karachi, Pakistan

Atiqa Ambreen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Nauman Safdar

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Global Health Directorate, Indus Health Network, Karachi, Pakistan

Tehmina Mustafa

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood Khanzada, Tehmina Mustafa

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

Affiliations Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.