About the Authors

Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

carlosvillaorduna@hotmail.com

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luiz Guilherme Schmidt-Castellani

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Patricia Marques-Rodrigues

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Laura F. White

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Jamil Hadad

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Mary Gaeddert

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jerrold J. Ellner

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin P. Fennelly

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pulmonary Clinical Medicine Section, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Moises Palaci

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Reynaldo Dietze

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, Global Health & Tropical Medicine - Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Edward C. Jones-López

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of our co-authors, Dr. Jones-López, is a co-founder and shareholder of a small startup company created in 2013 to develop and commercialize a molecular assay for tuberculosis diagnosis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare that no competing interests exist.