Evaluation of GenoType MTBDRplus for the detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis on isolates from Karachi, Pakistan

• Sara Siddiqui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Siddiqui, Meredith B. Brooks

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Sara.Siddiqui@ghd.ihn.org.pk

  Affiliation Global Health Directorate, Indus Health Network, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3942-1593

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• Meredith B. Brooks ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Siddiqui, Meredith B. Brooks

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

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1022-2515

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• Amyn A. Malik,

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

  Affiliations Global Health Directorate, Indus Health Network, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4875-9916

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• Junaid Fuad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Global Health Directorate, Indus Health Network, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Ahsana Nazish,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Global Health Directorate, Indus Health Network, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Safia Bano,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Indus Hospital–TB Laboratory, Indus Health Network, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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• Mercedes C. Becerra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Hamidah Hussain

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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