Peripheral clinic versus centralized laboratory-based Xpert MTB/RIF performance: Experience gained from a pragmatic, stepped-wedge trial in Botswana

• Tefera Agizew ,

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

  * E-mail: tagizew@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-7307

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• Rosanna Boyd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ndwapi Ndwapi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministerial Strategic Office, Ministry of Health, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Andrew Auld,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Joyce Basotli,

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

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Sambayawo Nyirenda,

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

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Zegabriel Tedla,

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

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Anikie Mathoma,

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

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Unami Mathebula,

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

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Chawangwa Lesedi,

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

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Sherri Pals,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Anand Date,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Heather Alexander,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Thomas Kuebrich,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Alyssa Finlay

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

  Affiliations Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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