About the Authors

Martie van der Walt

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Sikhethiwe Masuku, Sonja Botha, Tshifhiwa Nkwenika, Karen H. Keddy

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation TB Platform Research Unit, Pretoria, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Sikhethiwe Masuku

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Sikhethiwe Masuku, Sonja Botha, Tshifhiwa Nkwenika, Karen H. Keddy

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sikhethiwe.Masuku@mrc.ac.za, khethi12@gmail.com

Affiliation TB Platform Research Unit, Pretoria, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Sonja Botha

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Sikhethiwe Masuku, Sonja Botha, Tshifhiwa Nkwenika, Karen H. Keddy

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation TB Platform Research Unit, Pretoria, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Tshifhiwa Nkwenika

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Sikhethiwe Masuku, Sonja Botha, Tshifhiwa Nkwenika, Karen H. Keddy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics Research Unit, Pretoria, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Karen H. Keddy

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Sikhethiwe Masuku, Sonja Botha, Tshifhiwa Nkwenika, Karen H. Keddy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation TB Platform Research Unit, Pretoria, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.