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- Received January 28, 2016
- Accepted February 26, 2016
- Published online May 31, 2016.
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- Simon Tiberi1,30,
- Giovanni Sotgiu2,30,
- Lia D'Ambrosio3,4,30,
- Rosella Centis3,30,
- Marcos Abdo Arbex5,6,
- Edith Alarcon Arrascue7,8,
- Jan Willem Alffenaar9,
- Jose A. Caminero8,10,
- Mina Gaga11,
- Gina Gualano12,
- Alena Skrahina13,
- Ivan Solovic14,
- Giorgia Sulis15,
- Marina Tadolini16,
- Valentina Alarcon Guizado17,
- Saverio De Lorenzo18,
- Aurora Jazmín Roby Arias19,
- Anna Scardigli8,
- Onno W. Akkerman20,
- Alena Aleksa21,
- Janina Artsukevich21,
- Vera Auchynka13,
- Eduardo Henrique Bonini5,6,
- Félix Antonio Chong Marín19,
- Lorena Collahuazo López19,
- Gerard de Vries22,
- Simone Dore2,
- Heinke Kunst23,
- Alberto Matteelli15,
- Charalampos Moschos11,
- Fabrizio Palmieri12,
- Apostolos Papavasileiou11,
- Marie-Christine Payen24,
- Andrea Piana2,
- Antonio Spanevello25,26,
- Dante Vargas Vasquez27,
- Pietro Viggiani18,
- Veronica White28,
- Alimuddin Zumla29 and
- Giovanni Battista Migliori3⇑
- 1Division of Infection, Barts Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- 2Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari – Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- 3WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Tradate, Italy
- 4Public Health Consulting Group, Lugano, Switzerland
- 5University Center of Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 6Hospital Nestor Goulart Reis, Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 7International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Lima, Peru
- 8MDR-TB Unit, Tuberculosis Division, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France
- 9University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Dept of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 10Pneumology Dept, Hospital General de Gran Canaria “Dr. Negrin”, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- 11MDR-TB Unit, Athens Chest Hospital Sotira, National Referral Centre for Mycobacteria, Athens, Greece
- 12Respiratory Infectious Diseases Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy
- 13Republican Research and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis, Minsk, Belarus
- 14National Institute for TB, Lung Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Vysne Hagy, Catholic University Ruzomberok, Ruzomberok, Slovakia
- 15University Dept of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for TB/HIV Co-infection and for TB Elimination – University of Brescia and Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital, Brescia, Italy
- 16Unit of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 17National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru
- 18AOVV E. Morelli Hospital, Reference Hospital for MDR and HIV-TB, Sondalo, Italy
- 19National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Pulmonology Hospital Alfredo J. Valenzuela, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 20University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Dept of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis; TB Center Beatrixoord, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 21Educational Institution “Grodno State Medical University”, Grodno, Belarus
- 22KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands
- 23Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Queen Mary University, London, UK
- 24Division of Infectious Diseases, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
- 25Pneumology Unit, Fondazione Maugeri, IRCCS, Tradate, Italy
- 26Dept of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
- 27National Hospital Hipólito Unanue, Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru
- 28Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Barts Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- 29Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- 30These authors contributed equally to this work
- Giovanni Battista Migliori, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Via Roncaccio 16, 21049, Tradate, Italy. E-mail: giovannibattista.migliori{at}fsm.it