Severe undernutrition in children affects tuberculin skin test performance in Southern India

• Divya Reddy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dreddy@montefiore.org

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6636-4438

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• Yicheng Ma,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Subitha Lakshminarayanan,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

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• Swaroop Sahu,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

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• Laura F. White,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ayiraveetil Reshma,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

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• Gautam Roy,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

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• Padmini Salgame,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2245-3767

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• Selby Knudsen,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Chelsie Cintron,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jerrold J. Ellner,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• C. Robert Horsburgh Jr.,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sonali Sarkar ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

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• Natasha S. Hochberg

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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