Comorbidities in pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India: Opportunities for intervention

• Natasha S. Hochberg ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nhoch@bu.edu

  Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5449-9973

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• Sonali Sarkar,

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

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• C. Robert Horsburgh Jr,

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

  Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Selby Knudsen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Jane Pleskunas,

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

  Affiliation Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Swaroop Sahu,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Rachel W. Kubiak,

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

  Affiliation Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• S. Govindarajan,

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

  Affiliation Government Chest Clinic, Puducherry, India

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• Padmini Salgame,

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

  Affiliation Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Subitha Lakshminarayanan,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Amsaveni Sivaprakasam,

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

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Laura F. White,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Noyal Maria Joseph,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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• Jerrold J. Ellner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Gautam Roy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Puducherry, India

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