All other authors of the Pediatric TB Contact Studies Consortium:
Orvalho Augusto, Carlos Acuna-Villaorduna, Shama Desai Ahuja, Neus Altet, Davit Baliashvili,
Sanjay Basu, Mercedes Becerra, Maryline Bonnet, W. Henry Boom, Martien Borgdorff,
Fadila Boulahbal, Anna Cristina C. Carvalho, Joan A. Cayla, Tsira Chakhaia, Ted Cohen,
Pei-Chun Chan, Julio Croda, Sumona Datta, Helena del Corral, Justin T. Denholm, Reynaldo
Dietze, Claudia C. Dobler, Simon Donkor, Uzochukwu Egere, Jerrold J. Ellner, Marcos
Espinal, Carlton A. Evans, Chi-Tai Fang, Katherine Fielding, Greg J. Fox, Luis F.
García, Alberto L. García-Basteiro, Steffen Geis, Stephen M. Graham, Louis Grandjean,
Djohar Hannoun, Mark Hatherill, Anja M. Hauri, Anneke C. Hesseling, Philip C. Hill,
Li-Min Huang, Helena Huerga, Rabia Hussain, Leah Jarlsberg, Edward C. Jones-López,
Seiya Kato, Midori Kato-Maeda, Beate Kampmann, H. Lester Kirchner, Afrânio Kritski,
Christoph Lange, Meng-Rui Lee, Li-Na Lee, Chih-Hsin Lee, Antonio Carlos Lemos, Christian
Lienhardt, Du-Lin Ling, Qiao Liu, Nathan C. Lo, Richard Long, Elisa Lopez-Varela,
Peng Lu, Matthew Magee, LaShaunda L. Malone, Anna M. Mandalakas, Neil A. Martinson,
Rufaida Mazahir, Megan B. Murray, Eduardo Martins Netto, Larissa Otero, Julie Parsonnet,
Arthur Reingold, H. Simon Schaaf, James A. Seddon, Surendra Sharma, Jitendra Singh,
Sarman Singh, Rosa Sloot, Giovanni Sotgiu, Catherine M. Stein, Najeeha Talat Iqbal,
Rina Triasih, Lisa Trieu, Maarten F Schim van der Loeff, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Cari
van Schalkwyk, Richa Vashishtha, Lilly Verhagen, Julian A. Villalba, Jann-Yuan Wang,
Christopher C. Whalen, Takashi Yoshiyama, Heather J. Zar, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Limei
Zhu
Institutional Affiliations.
Leonardo Martinez, Ph.D., Olivia Cords, M.S., Nathan C. Lo, M.D., Jason R. Andrews,
M.D. – Stanford University, School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and
Geographic Medicine, Stanford, California, United States.
Sanjay Basu, M.D. – Center for Primary Care, Harvard University
Nathan C. Lo, M.D. – Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology,
Stanford, CA, USA
Eduardo Martins Netto, M.D. – Universidade Federal da Bahia
Arthur Reingold, M.D. – University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Marcos Espinal – Director, Pan American Health Organization, Communicable Diseases
and Health Analysis.
Anna Mandalakas, M.D. – The Global TB Program, Texas Children’s Hospital and the Department
of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Anna Cristina C. Carvalho – Laboratory of Innovations in Therapies, Education and
Bioproducts (LITEB), Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC), FioCruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Afrânio L. Kritski, Ph.D., – Tuberculosis Academic Program-Medical School-Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Heather J. Zar, M.D. – Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial
Children’s Hospital and Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health
Mark Hatherill, M.D. – South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of
Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of
Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Ted Cohen, M.D. – Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of
Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
C. Robert Horsburgh, M.D. – Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Global Health, Boston University
School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
Alberto L. García-Basteiro, M.D. – Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), Maputo,
Mozambique; ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB),
Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Luis Garcia, M.D. – Grupo de Inmunología Celular e Inmunogenética, Facultad de Medicina,
Sede de Investigación Universitaria, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Julio Croda, M.D. – Faculty of Health Sciences, Federal University of Grande Dourados,
Brazil.
Rufaida Mazahir, M.D. – Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
Aligarh, India.
Justin T. Denholm, M.D. – Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne Health, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne,
Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Edward C. Jones-López, M.D. – Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine,
Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts,
United States of America
Reynaldo Dietze, M.D. – Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito
Santo, Vitória, Brazil, Global Health & Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e
Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Professor Li-Na Lee, M.D. – Department of Laboratory Medicine, Catholic Fu-Jen University
College of Medicine and Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Dr. Chih-Hsin Lee, M.D. – Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Wanfang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Pulmonary
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine,
Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Dr. Jann-Yuan Wang, M.D. – Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University
Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Julie Parsonnet, M.D. – Stanford University, School of Medicine, Division of Infectious
Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford, California, United States.
Neus Altet – Unidad de Tuberculosis, Vall d’Hebron-Drassanes, Hospital Universitari
Vall d’Hebron; Instituto de Investigacion en Atencion Primaria Jordi Gol.
Joan Cayla, M.D. – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Agencia de Salud Publica de
Barcelona; Unidad de Investigacion en Tuberculosis de Barcelona del Servicio de Epidemiologıa
de la Agencia de Salud Publica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Orvalho Augusto – Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Faculdade de Medicina, Maputo, Moçambique.
Shama D. Ahuja, Lisa Trieu – Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, New York City Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York.
Richard Long, M.D. – Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; School of Public Health, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña, M.D., Jerrold J. Ellner, M.D. – Section of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
of America; Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
of America.
Elisa López-Varela, M.D. – Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo,
Moçambique.
Greg J. Fox, Ph.D. – Sydney Medical School, Australia; University of Sydney, Camperdown,
New South Wales, Australia, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Glebe, New South
Wales, Australia.
Louis Grandjean, M.D. – The Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Imperial
College, London, United Kingdom; Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Departamento
de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima,
Peru.
Matthew Magee, M.D. – Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public
Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Davit Baliashvili, M.D. – Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health,
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Davit Baliashvili, M.D. – National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi,
Georgia Mercedes Becerra, M.D., Megan B. Murray, M.D. – Department of Global Health
and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Maryline Bonnet, M.D. – Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Unite Mixte Internationale
233 Translationnelles sur le VIH et les Maladies Infectieuses, Institut National de
la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite 1175, Montpellier, France.
Midori Kato-Maeda, M.D. – Curry International Tuberculosis Center, Division of Pulmonary
and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Zuckerberg San
Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, California, USA;
Leah Jarlsberg, B.A. – Curry International Tuberculosis Center, Division of Pulmonary
and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Zuckerberg San
Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Tsira Chakhaia, M.D. – University Research Co., LLC. Branch in Georgia, USAID Georgia
TB Prevention Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
Sumona Datta, M.D., Carlton A. Evans, M.D. – Innovation for Health and Development
(IFHAD), Laboratory of Research and Development, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,
Lima, Peru; Infectious Diseases and Immunity and Wellcome Trust Centre for Global
Health Research, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Innovacion por la Salud
y el Desarollo (IPSYD), Asociación Benéfica Prisma, Lima, Peru.
Helena del Corral, Ph.D. – Grupo de Epidemiologıa, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin,
Colombia; Escuela de Microbiologia, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia;
Grupo de Inmunologıa Celular e Inmunogenetica, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin,
Colombia; Centro Colombiano de Investigacion en Tuberculosis, Medellin, Colombia.
Larissa Otero, M.D. – Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad
Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Peruana Cayetano
Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Patrick Van der Stuyft, Ph.D. – Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine,
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent,
Belgium.
Philip C. Hill, M.D. –University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand; University
of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Najeeha Talat Iqbal – Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University,
Karachi, Pakistan.
Pei-Chun Chan, M.D. – Division of Chronic Infectious Disease, Third Division, Centers
for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University
Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chi-Tai Fang – Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public
Health; Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National
Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
Li-Min Huang – College of Medicine and College of Public Health, National Taiwan University
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan
University Hospital
Simon Donkor, Msc – Vaccines and Immunity Theme, Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul,
Gambia.
Helena Huerga, M.D. – Epicentre, Epidemiology and Population Health, Paris, France.
Christian Lienhardt, M.D. – Unité Mixte Internationale TransVIHMI (UMI 233 IRD–U1175
INSERM, Université de Montpellier), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD),
Montpellier, France
Takashi Yoshiyama, M.D., Seiya Kato, M.D. – Respiratory Diseases Center, Fukujuji
Hospital, Kiyose City, Japan.
Rabia Hussain, Ph.D. – Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Aga Khan University,
Stadium Road, P.O. BOX 3500, Karachi, Pakistan.
Katherine Fielding, Ph.D. – Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty
of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
United Kingdom.
H. Simon Schaaf, M.D. – Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre, Stellenbosch University,
Tygerberg, South Africa.
James A. Seddon, M.D. – Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre, Department of Paediatrics
and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Department of Infectious
Diseases, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
Jean-Pierre Zellweger, M.D. – TB competence center, Swiss Lung Association, Berne,
Switzerland
Giovanni Sotgiu, M.D. – Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Medical,
Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; Epidemiology
and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari-Research,
Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Christoph Lange, M.D. – Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Medical Clinic,
Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany; International Health/Infectious Diseases,
University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany; Tuberculosis Unit, German Center for Infection
Research, Borstel, Germany; Department of Medicine, University of Namibia School of
Medicine, Windhoek, Namibia; Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm,
Sweden.
Surendra K. Sharma, M.D. – Former Senior Professor and Head, Department of Internal
Medicine,[WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Tuberculosis Centre
of Excellence for Extrapulmonary TB Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government
of India], All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Current affiliations: Department of Molecular Medicine,Jamia Hamdard Institute of
Molecular Medicine Jamia Hamdard [Deemed to be University],New Delhi, India; Departments
of General Medicine and Respiratory, Medicine Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta
Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences [Deemed to be University],Wardha, Maharashtra,
India
Anja M. Hauri, M.D. – Hessiane State Health Office, Dillenburg, Germany.
Steffen Geis, M.D. – Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Philipps
University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Claudia C. Dobler, M.D. – Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University,
Robina, Queensland, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital,
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fadila Boulahbal, M.D. – Pasteur Institute of Algeria. Microbiologist, Coordonnateur
du groupe de recherche sur la tuberculose latente, Laboratoire National de Référence
pour la Tuberculose National Institute of Public Health
Dr Djohar Hannoun, M.D. – Epidemiologist, Department of Information, Algeria
Du–Lin Ling – Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taipei, Taiwan.
Rina Triasih, Ph.D. – Department of Pediatrics, Dr Sardjito Hospital and Faculty of
Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Stephen Graham, M.D. – Centre for International Child Health, University of MelbourneInstitute
Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne, Australia.
Du-Lin Ling – Third Branch, Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan.
Maarten Schim van der Loeff, M.D. – Department of Infectious Diseases, Infectious
Diseases Research & Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
Cari van Schalkwyk – The South African Department of Science and Technology/National
Research Foundation (DST/NRF) Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and
Analysis (SACEMA), University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Neil Martinson, M.D. – Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa; Center for TB Research, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Martien W. Borgdorff, M.D. – Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics; Center for Infections and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center,
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases,
Public Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Anneke C. Hesseling, M.D. – Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and
Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape
Town, South Africa
Rosa Sloot, Ph.D. – Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics;
Center for Infections and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, University
of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Julian A. Villalba, M.D. – Laboratorio de Tuberculosis, Instituto de Biomedicina,
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA.
Christopher C. Whalen, M.D. – Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College
of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States; Institute
of Global Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States.
LaShaunda L Malone, W. Henry Boom, M.D. – Division of Infectious Disease, Department
of Medicine and Tuberculosis Research Unit; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
Ohio
Luis F. García, M.D. – Grupo de Inmunologıa Celular e Inmunogenetica, Universidad
de Antioquia, Medellın, Colombia; Centro Colombiano de Investigacion en Tuberculosis,
Medellın, Colombia
LaShaunda L Malone, Catherine M. Stein, Ph.D., W. Henry Boom, M.D. – Uganda–CWRU Research
Collaboration, Makerere University and Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
Catherine M. Stein, Ph.D. – Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences,
Tuberculosis Research Unit & Department of Medicine.
H. Lester Kirchner, Ph.D. – Geisinger, Genomic Medicine Institute, Danville, PA, USA
Seiya Kato – Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Kiyose City, Japan
Jitendra Singh, Ph.D. – Division of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Medicine,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Sarman Singh, M.D. – Director & chief executive officer, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, Bhopal, India.
Beate Kampmann, M.D. – Vaccines and Immunity Theme, Medical Research Council (MRC)
Unit–The Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia; Centre for International Child Health Academic
Department of Paediatrics St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United
Kingdom.
Uzochukwu Egere, Ph.D. – Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool
Richa Vashishtha, Ph.D. – Programme Management Unit, Biotechnology Assistance Research
Council, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India.
Peng Lu, Ph.D., Qiao Liu, M.D., Limei Zhu, M.D. – Department of Chronic Communicable
Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu
Province, PR China.
Qiao Liu, M.D. – Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical
University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, PR China.
Meng-Rui Lee – Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital,
Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.
Lilly Verhagen, M.D. – Laboratorio de Tuberculosis, Instituto de Biomedicina, Universidad
Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
and Immunology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Afrânio Kritski, M.D. – Tuberculosis Academic Program-Medical School-Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Antonio Carlos Lemos M.D. – Prof. Edgard Santos Universitary Hospital, Federal University
of Bahia, Salvador/BA, Brazil.
Full Professors.
Julio Croda, Christopher C. Whalen, Antonio Carlos Lemos, Philip C. Hill, Megan Murray,
Sarman Singh, W. Henry Boom, Anneke C. Hesseling, Martien W. Borgdorff, Beate Kampmann,
Stephen Graham, Djohar Hannoun, Surendra K. Sharma, H. Simon Schaaf, Rabia Hussain,
Katherine Fielding, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Christoph Lange, Giovanni Sotgiu, Carlton
A. Evans, Mercedes Becerra, Jerrold J. Ellner, Reynaldo Dietze, Richard Long, Arthur
Reingold, Anna Mandalakas, Heather J. Zar, Li-Na Lee, Seiya Kato, Mark Hatherill,
Afrânio L. Kritski, Julie Parsonnet, C. Robert Horsburgh
