Feasibility and acceptability of GeneXpert MTB/XDR implementation among healthcare workers in three low-middle income African countries

• Sara Keller,

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

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands

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• Kogieleum Naidoo,

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

  Affiliations Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, SAMRC-CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8874-6661

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• Medhane Zekarias,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Ethiopia Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Sussan Israel-Isah,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Research Centre of Excellence- Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Mohammed Shaka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Ethiopia Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Gcinile Gule,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, SAMRC-CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Anushka Naidoo,

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

  Affiliations Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, SAMRC-CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Miriam Bathnna,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Research Centre of Excellence- Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Judith Nomthandazo Dlamini-Miti,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Kalkidan Yae,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Ethiopia Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Evaezi Okpokoro,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Research Centre of Excellence- Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Alash’le Abimiku,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Research Centre of Excellence- Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria, University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Ahmed Bedru,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Ethiopia Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Edine W. Tiemersma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: edine.tiemersma@kncvtbc.org

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2071-3038

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• on behalf of the TRiAD Study Consortium

  ¶The TRIAD full membership list can be found in the Acknowledgments section

  Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands

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