Contributors
Tefera Agizew:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-7307
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Joyce Basotli: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Heather Alexander: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Rosanna Boyd: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Gaoraelwe Letsibogo: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Andrew Auld: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Sambayawo Nyirenda: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Zegabriel Tedla: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Anikie Mathoma: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Unami Mathebula: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Sherri Pals: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Anand Date: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Alyssa Finlay: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Daniela Flavia Hozbor: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
December
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 12
Electronic Location Identifier: e0189981
Affiliations
[1
]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana
[2
]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Global HIV and TB, Atlanta,
Georgia, United States of America
[3
]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination,
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
[4
]
National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Gaborone, Botswana
Universidad Nacional de la Plata, ARGENTINA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-30717
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189981
PMC ID: 5741233
PubMed ID: 29272273
SO-VID: f84b9aca-c13e-4b25-b079-2e40d924c0eb
License:
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced,
distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any
lawful purpose. The work is made available under the
Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
History
Date
received
: 20
August
2017
Date
accepted
: 6
December
2017
Page count
Figures: 2,
Tables: 2,
Pages: 13
Funding
This research has been supported by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR) through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funder had
no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or
preparation of the manuscript.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Actinobacteria
Subject:
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Bacterial Diseases
Subject:
Tuberculosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Tropical Diseases
Subject:
Tuberculosis
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Actinobacteria
Subject:
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Mucus
Subject:
Sputum
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Mucus
Subject:
Sputum
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Mucus
Subject:
Sputum
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Mucus
Subject:
Sputum
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Infectious diseases
Subject:
Viral diseases
Subject:
HIV infections
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic medicine
Subject:
HIV clinical manifestations
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Geographical Locations
Subject:
Africa
Subject:
Botswana
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic Medicine
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