About the Authors

Erika van den Bogaart

Contributed equally to this work with: Erika van den Bogaart, Marieke M. Z. Berkhout

E.v.d.Bogaart@kit.nl

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marieke M. Z. Berkhout

Contributed equally to this work with: Erika van den Bogaart, Marieke M. Z. Berkhout

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Emily R. Adams

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pètra F. Mens

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Elizabeth Sentongo

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Dawson B. Mbulamberi

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Masja Straetemans

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Henk D. F. H. Schallig

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Francois Chappuis

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EvdB ERA PFM HDFHS FC. Performed the experiments: EvdB MMZB ERA PFM MS ES DBM HDFHS FC. Analyzed the data: MMZB MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EvdB MMZB ES DBM MS FC. Wrote the paper: EvdB. Reviewed the manuscript: MMZB ERA PFM ES DBM MS HDFHS FC.