About the Authors

Banurekha Velayutham

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

bhannu@gmail.com

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Lavanya Jayabal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, Chennai, India

Basilea Watson

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

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Saraswathy Jagadeesan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Dhanalakshmi Angamuthu

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

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Priscilla Rebecca

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

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Bella Devaleenal

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Dina Nair

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Srikanth Tripathy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Sriram Selvaraju

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.