About the Authors

Rosarito Coronel Teixeira

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

chariteixeira@yahoo.com.ar

Affiliations National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and the Environment (INERAM), Asunción, Paraguay, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre -TB Expert Centre Dekkerswald, Nijmegen—Groesbeek, The Netherlands

Luis Gómez

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and the Environment (INERAM), Asunción, Paraguay

Eva González

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and the Environment (INERAM), Asunción, Paraguay

Nilda Jiménez de Romero

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and the Environment (INERAM), Asunción, Paraguay, National Reference Laboratory of Public Health Laboratory (LCSP), Asunción, Paraguay

Felipe González

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and the Environment (INERAM), Asunción, Paraguay

Sarita Aguirre

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTCP), Asunción, Paraguay

Martin Boeree

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre -TB Expert Centre Dekkerswald, Nijmegen—Groesbeek, The Netherlands

Robin Janssen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre -TB Expert Centre Dekkerswald, Nijmegen—Groesbeek, The Netherlands

Cecile Magis-Escurra

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

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre -TB Expert Centre Dekkerswald, Nijmegen—Groesbeek, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.