About the Authors

Tanvi S. Sharma

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jane Hughes

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Amarylis Murillo

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Joanne Riley

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Andreia Soares

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Francesca Little

Affiliation Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Charles D. Mitchell

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Willem A. Hanekom

Willem.hanekom@uct.ac.za

Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TSS CM WH. Performed the experiments: TSS JR. Analyzed the data: TSS JH JR AS FL. Wrote the paper: TSS. Primary mentor for project: WH. Assisted and supervised with all aspects of conception to analysis: WH. Manuscript: WH. Data collection and data entry: AM. Served as mentor on project: CM.