About the Authors

Sumedh Bele

Contributed equally to this work with: Sumedh Bele, Wei Jiang

Affiliations Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Wei Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sumedh Bele, Wei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, P. R. China

Hui Lu

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Hua You

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Hong Fan

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Lifang Huang

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, P. R. China

Qungang Wang

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, P. R. China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Jianming Wang

jmwang@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB HS JW. Performed the experiments: SB WJ LH QW. Analyzed the data: SB JW. Wrote the paper: SB WJ HL HY HF JW.