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The Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS) Consensus (CON) Group Meeting Proceedings

Rupesh Agrawal1 National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore;2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom;3 Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, SingaporeORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6662-5850
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Ilaria Testi2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Sarakshi Mahajan4 Byers Eye Institute, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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Yew Sen Yuen5 Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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Aniruddha Agarwal6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4985-9855
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Andres Rousselot7 Department of Ophthalmology, Universidad del Salvador of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Dhananjay Raje8 MDS Bioanalytics, Nagpur, India
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Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran1 National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore;2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom;4 Byers Eye Institute, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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Onn Min Kon9 Chest and Allergy Clinic, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Heathcare Service Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Talin Barisani-Asenbauer10 OCUVAC - Centre of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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John H. Kempen11 Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts
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Amod Gupta6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Douglas A. Jabs12 Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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Justine R. Smith13 Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Adelaide, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-5493
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Bahram Bodaghi14 Department of Ophthalmology, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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Manfred Zierhut15 Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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Marc DeSmet16 Department of Ophthalmology ZNA Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
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Peter Mc Cluskey17 Department of Ophthalmology, Director Save Sight Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Mamta Agarwal18 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
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Manisha Agarwal19 Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital Daryaganj, New Delhi, India
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Kanika Aggarwal6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Mukesh Agrawal20 VIMTA’s Clinical Research and Clinical Reference Lab, Hyderabad, India
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Hassan Al-Dhibi21 King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sofia Androudi22 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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Fatma Asyari23 INOIIS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
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Manohar Babu Balasundaram24 Aravind Eye Care System, Coimbatore, India
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Kalpana Babu Murthy25 Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology, Bangalore, India
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Edoardo Baglivo26 Department of Ophthalmology, Clinique de l’oeil, Geneva, Switzerland
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Alay Banker27 Banker’s Retina Clinic and Laser Centre, 5 Subhash Society, Ahmedabad, India
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Reema Bansal6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Soumyava Basu28 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
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Digamber Behera6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Jyotirmay Biswas18 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
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Ester Carreño29 Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
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Laure Caspers30 Department of Ophthalmology, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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Soon Phaik Chee3 Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore;31 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6308-5721
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Romi Chhabra32 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Luca Cimino33 Ocular Immunology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7956-9950
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Luz Elena Concha del Rio34 Asociacion Para Evitar La Ceguera En Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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Emmett T. Cunningham35 Department of Ophthalmology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Andrè Luiz Land Curi36 Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Brazil
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Dipankar Das37 Department of Ocular Pathology, Uveitis & Neuro-Ophthalmology Services, Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati, India
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Ekaterina Denisova38 Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russia
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Alastair K Denniston2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom;39 Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United KingdomORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7849-0087
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Marie-Hélène Errera40 Centre National d’Ophtalmologie des 15-20, Paris, Sorbonne-Universités, Paris 6, France
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Alejandro Fonollosa41 Hospital Universitario Cruces, Cruces-Barakaldo, Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain)
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Amala George18 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
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Debra A. Goldstein42 Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Yan Guex Crosier43 Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, FAA, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Avinash Gurbaxani2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Alessandro Invernizzi44 Eye Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Science “L. Sacco”, Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3400-1987
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Hazlita M. Isa45 Gleneagles Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Shah Md. Islam46 Ibn Sina Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Nicholas Jones32 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Deeksha Katoch6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Moncef Khairallah47 Department of Ophthalmology, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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Amit Khosla48 Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
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Michal Kramer49 Department of Ophthalmology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel
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Amitabh Kumar50 Department of Uvea, Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya, Kolkata, India
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Atul Kumar51 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Rina La Distia Nora23 INOIIS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
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Richard Lee2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Careen Lowder52 Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Saurabh Luthra53 Drishti Eye Centre, Dehradun, Uttranchal, India.
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Padmamalini Mahendradas54 Department of Uveitis and Ocular Immunology, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
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Dorine Makhoul30 Department of Ophthalmology, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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Shahana Mazumdar55 Department of Vitreoretina and Uvea, ICARE Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Salil Mehta56 Department of Ophthalmology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4175-459X
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Elisabetta Miserocchi57 Ophthalmology Department, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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Manabu Mochizuki58 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Oli S. Mohamed59 Hospital Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
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Cristina Muccioli60 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, BrazilORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6870-6187
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Marion R Munk61 Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Somasheila Murthy62 Tej Kohli Cornea Institute, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad, India
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Shishir Narain63 Shroff Eye Centre, New Delhi, India
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Heloisa Nascimento64 Instituto da Visão, Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), SP, BrazilORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0315-1317
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Piergiorgio Neri65 Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Myhanh Nguyen66 Cao Thang Eye Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Annabelle A. Okada67 Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Pinar Ozdal68 Department of Ophthalmology, Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
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Alan Palestine69 University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
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Francesco Pichi65 Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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S.R Rathinam70 Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, India
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Ariel Schlaen71 Hospital Universitario Austral, Hospital de Clinicas “Jose de San Martín”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Shobha Sehgal6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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H Nida Sen72 The Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Aman Sharma6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Kusum Sharma6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Samir S. Shoughy73 The Eye Center and The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, Riyad, Saudi Arabia
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Nirbhai Singh6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Ramandeep Singh6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Masoud Soheilian74 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Sudharshan Sridharan18 Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
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Jennifer E. Thorne75 Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Christoph Tappeiner61 Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Stephen Teoh76 Eagle Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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Maria Sofia Tognon77 Ocular Immunology Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy
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Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun78 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Turkey
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Mudit Tyagi79 LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
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Harvey Uy80 Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service, Asian Eye Institute, Makati, Philippines
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Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos Santos81 Uveitis Unit, Hospital São Geraldo/Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Natasa Vidovic Valentincic82 Eye Hospital, UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Mark Westcott2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Ryoji Yanai83 Yamaguchi University Hospital, Ube, Japan
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Bety Yanez Alvarez84 Dos De Mayo Hospital, Lima, Perù
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Rahman Zahedur85 Eastern University, Bangladesh
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Quan Dong Nguyen4 Byers Eye Institute, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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Carlos Pavesio2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Vishali Gupta6 Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 85-95 | Received 31 Jul 2019, Accepted 10 Jan 2020, Published online: 06 Apr 2020

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