About the Authors

Kruger Kaswaswa

Contributed equally to this work with: Kruger Kaswaswa, Peter MacPherson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

kkaswaswa@gmail.com

Affiliations College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Malawi National TB Control Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Peter MacPherson

Contributed equally to this work with: Kruger Kaswaswa, Peter MacPherson

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

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Moses Kumwenda

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

James Mpunga

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malawi National TB Control Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Deus Thindwa

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Marriott Nliwasa

Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

Mphatso Mwapasa

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Jon Odland

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tamiwe Tomoka

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Geoffrey Chipungu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Mavuto Mukaka

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Elizabeth L. Corbett

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliations College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exit.