About the Authors

Vasantha Mahalingam

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

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Ramesh Kumar Santhanakrishnan

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

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Muniyandi Malaisamy

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

muniyandi.m@icmr.gov.in

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Karthick Chelvanayagam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Kavi Mathiyazhagan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Adhin Bhaskar

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

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Karikalan Nagarajan

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

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Jerard Maria Selvam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Health Mission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India

Surendran Veeraiah

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

Affiliation Department of Psycho-Oncology & RCTC, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, India

Kavitha Rajsekar

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

Affiliation Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Kirti Tyagi

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

Affiliation Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan

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

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.