About the Authors

Elize Pietersen

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, Division of Pulmonology, Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Kim Anderson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, Division of Pulmonology, Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Helen Cox

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa and the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Keertan Dheda

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, Division of Pulmonology, Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Aihua Bian

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Bryan E. Shepherd

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Timothy R. Sterling

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Robin M. Warren

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, NRF-DSI Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Yuri F. van der Heijden

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

yuri.vanderheijden@vumc.org

Affiliations Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.