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Affiliations

• ¹ DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa; Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium; Section Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• ² DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa.
• ³ Department of Health, City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; TASK Applied Science, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁵ Family Clinical Centre for Research with Ubuntu (FAMCRU), Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁶ Section Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• ⁷ Family Medicine and Population Health (FAMPOP), Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), and Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BIOSTAT), Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
• ⁸ Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; DSI-NRF South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ⁹ DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and SA/MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7550, South Africa. Electronic address: gtheron@sun.ac.za.