Comprehensive new resource for evidence-based TB diagnosis

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Acknowledgements

The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the agencies they are affiliated with. The authors are grateful to several individuals for their help and support in creating the www.tbevidence.org website, including Augustine Kwok, Jessica Minion, Hojoon Sohn and Karen Steingart.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

Madhukar Pai, Andrew Ramsay and Richard O’Brien are editors of the website www.tbevidence.org. They are also members of the New Diagnostics Working Group (NDWG). Madhukar Pai is the Co-Chair of the NDWG, and Andrew Ramsay has served as the secretary of the NDWG. Madhukar Pai and Richard O’Brien are Co-Chairs of the NDWG’s subgroup on Evidence Synthesis for TB Diagnostics. Richard O’Brien works for the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and Madhukar Pai serves as a consultant for FIND. FIND is a nonprofit agency that collaborates with several industry partners for the development of new diagnostics for neglected infectious diseases. The www.tbevidence.org website was inspired by a paper entitled ‘Evidence-based tuberculosis diagnosis’ published in PLoS Medicine in 2008. Funding to develop the website was provided by the Stop TB Partnership’s NDWG and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and additional support was provided several other partners and groups. Madhukar Pai is a recipient of a New Investigator Career Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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