The authors acknowledge the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (Institutos do Milenio/ 62.00055/01-4-PACDT-RedeTB project); the ABC Training Grant for Rio de Janeiro (
ICIDR) Program, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (Grant D43TWO5574-04); and the International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Award in AIDS and Tuberculosis (ICOHRTA AIDS/TB, FIC/NIH # 5U2 R TW006883-03) for supporting this study.
We kindly acknowledge the financial support from the following institutions: Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Mayor de San Andres (to GV) and Texas Tech University (Grants Program of the Vice-President for Research) and NIH U19 AI4545 2, the
ICIDR Opportunity Pool Award (to JSB).
This study was funded by the International Centre for Tropical Disease Research (
ICIDR) of the National Institutes of Health, by a cooperative agreement from the U.S.