A preclinical model of TB meningitis to determine drug penetration and activity at the sites of disease.

"The authors declare no conflict of interest."

"This work was supported by NIH-NIAID grant number R01 AI145436 to S.W., M.G., R.J.W., and V.D. In addition, S.W. is supported by the National Institutes of Health (K43TW011421 and U01AI170426) and Wellcome through core funding to the Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (203135/Z/16/Z). R.J.W. receives support from the Francis Crick Institute, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust (CC2112), UK Research and Innovation (FC2112), and Cancer Research UK (FC2112). He also receives support from Wellcome (203135) and Meningitis Now. For the purpose of open access, S.W. and R.J.W. have applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission."