About the Authors

Nicole C. Cardoso

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Andrea O. Papadopoulos

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Bavesh D. Kana

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bavesh.kana@nhls.ac.za

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.