About the Authors

Dean B. Everett

Dean.Everett@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jennifer Cornick

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Brigitte Denis

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi

Claire Chewapreecha

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nicholas Croucher

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon Harris

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Julian Parkhill

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen Gordon

Affiliation The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Enitan D. Carrol

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Institute of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Neil French

Affiliation Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Robert S. Heyderman

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi, The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Stephen D. Bentley

Affiliations Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DE RSH SDB. Performed the experiments: DE JC BD CC NC SH. Analyzed the data: DE JC CC SH NC RSH SDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP EDC SG NF. Wrote the paper: DE RSH SDB.