Comparison of profile and treatment outcomes between elderly and non-elderly tuberculosis patients in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, South India

• Sharan Murali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sharan Murali, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy

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

  Affiliation Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

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• Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sharan Murali, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy

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

  * E-mail: yuvi.1130@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4688-510X

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• Selby Knudsen,

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

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

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• Gautam Roy,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

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• Jerrold Ellner,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, United States of America

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• Charles Robert Horsburgh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Natasha Hochberg,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Padmini Salgame,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, United States of America

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• Senbagavalli Prakash Babu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

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• Sonali Sarkar

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

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