About the Authors

Joakim Isendahl

joakim.isendahl@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Agata Turlej-Rogacka

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Cristovão Manjuba

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Nacional Simão Mendes, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Amabelia Rodrigues

Affiliation Instituto Nacional da Saúde Pública, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Christian G. Giske

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Pontus Nauclér

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PN CGG. Performed the experiments: PN ATR CM AR JI. Analyzed the data: PN CGG ATR JI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PN CGG. Wrote the paper: PN CGG ATR JI. Collected the samples and the questionnaire data: PN CM AR JI.