Measuring mortality due to HIV-associated tuberculosis among adults in South Africa: Comparing verbal autopsy, minimally-invasive autopsy, and research data

• Aaron S. Karat ,

  * E-mail: aaron.karat@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9643-664X

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• Mpho Tlali,

  Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Katherine L. Fielding,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Salome Charalambous,

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Violet N. Chihota,

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gavin J. Churchyard,

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Yasmeen Hanifa,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Suzanne Johnson,

  Affiliation Foundation for Professional Development, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Kerrigan McCarthy,

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Public Health, Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Disease of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Neil A. Martinson,

  Affiliations Perinatal HIV Research Unit, and Medical Research Council Soweto Matlosana Collaborating Centre for HIV/AIDS and TB, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Johns Hopkins University Center for TB Research, Baltimore, United States of America, Department of Science and Technology / National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Tanvier Omar,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Kathleen Kahn,

  Affiliations MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana, Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Daniel Chandramohan,

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Alison D. Grant

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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