diff --git a/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/index.d.ts b/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for zipkin-javascript-opentracing 1.6
+// Project: https://github.com/DanielMSchmidt/zipkin-javascript-opentracing
+// Definitions by: Laurent Gilly <https://github.com/laurentgilly>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export = zipkin_javascript_opentracing;
+
+declare class zipkin_javascript_opentracing {
+    constructor(...args: any[]);
+
+    extract(format: any, carrier: any): any;
+
+    inject(span: any, format: any, carrier: any): void;
+
+    startSpan(name: any, ...args: any[]): any;
+
+    static FORMAT_BINARY: string;
+
+    static FORMAT_HTTP_HEADERS: string;
+
+    static FORMAT_TEXT_MAP: string;
+
+    static makeOptional(val: any): any;
+}
+
+declare namespace zipkin_javascript_opentracing {
+    namespace makeOptionalNamespace {
+        const prototype: {};
+    }
+
+    namespace prototypeNamespace {
+        function extract(format: any, carrier: any): any;
+
+        function inject(span: any, format: any, carrier: any): void;
+
+        function startSpan(name: any, ...args: any[]): any;
+
+        namespace extract {
+            const prototype: {};
+        }
+
+        namespace inject {
+            const prototype: {};
+        }
+
+        namespace startSpan {
+            const prototype: {};
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/tsconfig.json b/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": ["es6"],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": ["../"],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": ["index.d.ts", "zipkin-javascript-opentracing-tests.ts"]
+}
diff --git a/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/tslint.json b/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }
diff --git a/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/zipkin-javascript-opentracing-tests.ts b/types/zipkin-javascript-opentracing/zipkin-javascript-opentracing-tests.ts
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+import ZipkinOpentracing = require("zipkin-javascript-opentracing");
+const zipkinBaseUrl = "http://zipkin.danielmschmidt.de";
+
+// Setup the tracer
+const tracer = new ZipkinOpentracing({
+    serviceName: "zipkin-opentracing-service",
+    endpoint: zipkinBaseUrl,
+    kind: "client"
+});