About the Authors

Ajay M. V. Kumar

kumaramv@rntcp.org (AK); sathyasaakshi@gmail.com (S. Srinath)

Affiliations Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India, Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Devesh Gupta

Affiliation Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

B. B. Rewari

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Damodar Bachani

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Suresh Mohammed

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Vartika Sharma

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Kumaraswamy Lal

Affiliation State TB Cell, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore, India

H. R. Raveendra Reddy

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Balaji Naik

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Rita Prasad

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Mohammed Yaqoob

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

K. G. Deepak

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Suresh Shastri

Affiliation Karnataka State AIDS Prevention and Control Society, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore, India

Srinath Satyanarayana

kumaramv@rntcp.org (AK); sathyasaakshi@gmail.com (S. Srinath)

Affiliations Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Anthony David Harries

Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), Paris, France, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Lakhbir Singh Chauhan

Affiliation Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

Puneet Dewan

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK DG BR DB SM VS KL RR BN RP MY DK S. Shastri S. Srinath ADH LSC PKD. Performed the experiments: AK RR BN RP MY DK. Analyzed the data: AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK KL RR BN RP MY DK. Wrote the paper: AK DG BR DB SM VS KL RR BN RP MY DK S. Shastri S. Srinath ADH LSC PKD.