Cost and operational impact of promoting upfront GeneXpert MTB/RIF test referrals for presumptive pediatric tuberculosis patients in India

• Sanjay Sarin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjay Sarin, Sophie Huddart

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

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Sophie Huddart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjay Sarin, Sophie Huddart

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-3371

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• Neeraj Raizada,

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

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Debadutta Parija,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Aakshi Kalra,

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

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, New Delhi, India

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• Raghuram Rao,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Virender Singh Salhotra,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Sunil D. Khaparde,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Catharina Boehme,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Claudia M. Denkinger,

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

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Hojoon Sohn

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

  * E-mail: hsohn6@jhu.edu

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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