About the Authors

Odin Goovaerts

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

ogoovaerts@itg.be

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Marguerite Massinga-Loembé

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambarene, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin,Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Pascale Ondoa

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ann Ceulemans

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

William Worodria

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Network for Treatment and Research in Africa (INTERACT), Kampala, Uganda

Harriet Mayanja-Kizza

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Robert Colebunders

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Luc Kestens

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

the TB-IRIS Study Group

The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.