About the Authors

Janusz T. Paweska

januszp@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, Division Virology and Communicable Disease Surveillance, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Petrus Jansen van Vuren

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Justin Masumu

Affiliation Southern African Center for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Morogoro, Tanzania

Patricia A. Leman

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Antoinette A. Grobbelaar

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Monica Birkhead

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Sarah Clift

Affiliation University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Robert Swanepoel

Affiliation University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Alan Kemp

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTP PJvV AK. Performed the experiments: JTP PJvV JM PAL AAG MB SC AK. Analyzed the data: JTP PJvV JM PAL AAG MB SC RS AK. Wrote the paper: JTP PJvV JM PAL AAG MB SC RS AK.