Broda, Agnieszka
Nikolayevskyy, Vlad
Casali, Nicki
Khan, Huma
Bowker, Richard
Blackwell, Gemma
Patel, Bhakti
Hume, James
Hussain, Waqar
Drobniewski, Francis
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovate UK (101552)
Article History
Received: 29 January 2018
Accepted: 28 March 2018
First Online: 20 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: Ethical approval for the collection of residual sputum specimens was obtained at the Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis Hospital in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ethical approval for the whole study was received from the Imperial College London (ICL) Research Ethics Committee. Patients invited to take part in the study were provided with an information sheet and informed consent was obtained before the enrolment into the study.