About the Authors

Humphrey Mulenga

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Chambrez-Zita Zauchenberger

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Erick W. Bunyasi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Stanley Kimbung Mbandi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Simon C. Mendelsohn

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Benjamin Kagina

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccines for Africa Initiative (VACFA), School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Adam Penn-Nicholson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Thomas J. Scriba

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Scriba, Mark Hatherill

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

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mark Hatherill

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Scriba, Mark Hatherill

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

Mark.Hatherill@uct.ac.za

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Thomas J. Scriba and Adam Penn-Nicholson are inventors of blood transcriptomic signatures of risk of TB. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.