Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

• Kerrigan McCarthy ,

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

  * E-mail: kerriganm@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute; Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-9795

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• Katherine Fielding,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Gavin J. Churchyard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Aurum Institute; Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Advancing Treatment and Care, South African Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Alison D. Grant

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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