Scaling-up the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in India: An economic analysis

• Sunil Khaparde,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation

  Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Neeraj Raizada ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drneerajraizada@gmail.com

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2116-332X

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• Sreenivas Achuthan Nair,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Delhi, India

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• Claudia Denkinger,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Central TB Division, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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• Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramasivan,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Virender Singh Salhotra,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Additional DDG, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

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• Anna Vassall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Anja van't Hoog

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

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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