Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Pakistan- A nation-wide multicenter retrospective study

• Sabira Tahseen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood Khanzada, Tehmina Mustafa

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

  * E-mail: sabira.tahseen@gmail.com

  Affiliations National TB Reference Laboratory, National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan, Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6887-8149

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• Faisal Masood Khanzada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood Khanzada, Tehmina Mustafa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB Reference Laboratory, National TB Control Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Aurangzaib Quadir Baloch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National TB Control Program, Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Qasim Abbas ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial TB Control Program, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar, Pakistan

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• Mansoor Manzoor Bhutto ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Sindh Health Care Commission, Karachi, Pakistan

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Provincial Reference Laboratory, Provincial TB Control Program, Sindh, Karachi Pakistan

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• Ahmad Wali Alizai ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial TB Control Program, Government of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan

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• Shah Zaman ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial TB Control Program, Government of Gilgit Baltistan, Gilgit, Pakistan

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• Zahida Qasim ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, District Head Quarter Hospital Mirpur, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan, Department of Health Azad Jammu Kashmir, District Head Quarter Hospital Mirpur, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Najeeb Durrani ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health, Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• M. Khalid Farough ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation TB Project, Green Star Marketing, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Atiqa Ambreen ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Nauman Safdar ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Tehmina Mustafa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood Khanzada, Tehmina Mustafa

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

  Affiliations Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

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