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First Online: 27 October 2016

Competing interests

: M.P. declares no financial conflicts. He serves as a consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and on advisory committees of Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and TB Alliance. M.A.B. receives royalties for an antigen used in one of the IGRA tests (QuantiFERON) but did not contribute to this section of the document. He serves on the Vaccine Advisory Committee for Aeras. K.D. has obtained speaker fees at industry-sponsored symposia and grants from FIND, eNose Company, Statens Serum Institut and bioMeriux, and grants and personal fees from ALERE, Oxford Immunotec, Cellestis (now Qiagen), Cepheid, Antrum Biotec and Hain Lifescience. In addition, K.D. has a patent Characterisation of novel tuberculosis specific urinary biomarkers pending, a patent A smart mask for monitoring cough-related infectious diseases pending and a patent Device for diagnosing EPTB issued. C.C.B. is employed by FIND, a not-for-profit organization driving the development and delivery of new diagnostics for tuberculosis (TB). FIND has contractual relationships with >20 in vitro diagnostic companies, several of which are mentioned in the article. M.R. declares no financial conflicts. He serves as observer on the Board of Directors of the TB Alliance and as External Clinical Research Expert for the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Network Strategic Working Group, NIH. All other authors declare no competing interests.