Jeyashree, Kathiresan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6459-3659
Thangaraj, Jeromie W. V.
Shanmugasundaram, Devika
Giridharan, Sri Lakshmi Priya
Pandey, Sumit
Shanmugasundaram, Prema
Ramasamy, Sabarinathan
Janagaraj, Venkateshprabhu
Arunachalam, Sivavallinathan
Sharma, Rahul
Shah, Vaibhav
Bagepally, Bhavani Shankara
Chadwick, Joshua
Shewade, Hemant Deepak
Chowdhury, Aniket
Iyer, Swati
Rao, Raghuram
Mattoo, Sanjay K.
Murhekar, Manoj V.
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development (0011-0549-1023)
Article History
Received: 6 May 2024
Accepted: 13 November 2024
First Online: 9 December 2024
Declarations
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: The Institutional Human Ethics Committee (IHEC) of Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) (NIE/IHEC/202201–13) approved the study. A non-disclosure agreement was signed between ICMR-NIE and the Central TB Division for sharing of <i>Ni-kshay</i> data. We obtained informed written consent from all the study participants or family members (in case of deceased PwTB) after sharing the participant information sheet in the regional language and this process was approved by the ethics committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.