About the Authors

James C. Johnston

johnst22@interchange.ubc.ca

Affiliation Tuberculosis Control, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

Neal C. Shahidi

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research, Vancouver, Canada

Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Affiliation Collaboration for Outcome Research and Evaluation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

J. Mark Fitzgerald

Affiliations Tuberculosis Control, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCJ JMF. Analyzed the data: JCJ NCS MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: JCJ NCS JMF. Literature searching and data abstraction: JCJ NCS. Statistical analysis: MS.