About the Authors

Wei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Chen, Wen Shu

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Wen Shu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Chen, Wen Shu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Min Wang

Affiliation Medical Reform Office, Wuhan Health Bureau, Wuhan, China

Yongchun Hou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yinyin Xia

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Weiguo Xu

Affiliation Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

Liqiong Bai

Affiliation TB Institute for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention of Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Shaofa Nie

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shiming Cheng

smcheng@chinatb.org (SC); xuyihua_6@hotmail.com (YX)

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yihua Xu

smcheng@chinatb.org (SC); xuyihua_6@hotmail.com (YX)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Helped supervise the field activities: LB WX. Conceived and designed the experiments: SN SC Y. Xu WC. Analyzed the data: WS MW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW YH Y. Xia. Wrote the paper: YX WS.