About the Authors

Yukari C. Manabe

ymanabe@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Core Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yaping Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ali Elbireer

Affiliations Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Core Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brandon Auerbach

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Barbara Castelnuovo

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

Alere Technologies funded the study. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCM BC. Performed the experiments: YCM BC AE. Analyzed the data: YW YCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW AE. Wrote the paper: YCM YW BA AE BC.