About the Authors

Beena E. Thomas

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

beenaelli09@gmail.com

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Kannan Thiruvengadam

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

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Raghavi S.

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sudha Rani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Vetrivel S.

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Vikas Gangadhar Rao

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

Rajiv Yadav

Roles Resources

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

Bhat J.

Roles Resources

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

Vijayachari Paluru

Roles Resources

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Anil Jacob Purthy

Roles Resources

Affiliation Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India

Tahziba Hussain

Roles Resources

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

Anil Kumar Indira Krishna

Roles Resources

Affiliation School of Public Health, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu

Alex Joseph

Roles Resources

Affiliation School of Public Health, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu

Avi Kumar Bansal

Roles Resources

Affiliation National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India

Praveen Anand

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Desert Medicine Research Centre, Jodhpur, India

Pradeep Das

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India

K. R. John

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Chittoor, India

Rekha Devi K.

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, India

Sunish P.

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Rony Moral

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Azhagendran S.

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chandrasekaran V.

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Toteja G. S.

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Desert Medicine Research Centre, Jodhpur, India

Madhuchhanda Das

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

A. M. Khan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Harpreet Kaur

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.