About the Authors
- Carla van Tienen
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* E-mail: c.vantienen@erasmusmc.nl
Affiliations Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Thushan I. de Silva
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Affiliations Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia, UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara
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Affiliations Public Health Advanced Laboratory, Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health Foundation for Science Development, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Clayton O. Onyango
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Affiliations Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
- Sheikh Jarju
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Affiliation Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia
- Nato Gonçalves
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Affiliations Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia, Projecto de Saúde de Bandim, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Tim Vincent
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Affiliation Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia
- Peter Aaby
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Affiliation Projecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Hilton Whittle
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Affiliation Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia
- Maarten Schim van der Loeff
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Affiliation Health Service of Amsterdam (GGD) and Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Matthew Cotten
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Affiliations Virology, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MC CvT TIdS MSvdL HW PA. Performed the experiments: CvT TIdS LCJA NG COO SJ. Analyzed the data: CvT MC TIdS LCJA SJ TV. Wrote the paper: CvT MC MSvdL TV. Supervision of data collection and data entry, drafting of the article and critically discussing hypotheses raised by the current study: TV.