About the Authors

Heather B. Jaspan

heather.jaspan@sbri.org

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation University of Cape Town School of Child and Adolescent Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Lyen C. Huang

Affiliation University of Cape Town School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa

Mark F. Cotton

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Andrew Whitelaw

Affiliations University of Cape Town School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Division of Medical Microbiology University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Landon Myer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HBJ. Performed the experiments: LCH. Analyzed the data: HBJ AW LM. Wrote the paper: HBJ MC. Provided clinical expertise: HBJ. Performed the data collection, and some statistical analysis: LCH. Performed literature review: MFC. Contributed to the laboratory methods and interpretation: AW. Revised the manuscript: MFC LM. Supervised study design and statistical analysis: LM.