About the Authors

Nalia Ismael

Contributed equally to this work with: Nalia Ismael, Stephanie van Wyk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nalia.ismael@ins.gov.mz (NI); stephanievanwyk@sun.ac.za (SW); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

Affiliations Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique, Division of Medical Virology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Stephanie van Wyk

Contributed equally to this work with: Nalia Ismael, Stephanie van Wyk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nalia.ismael@ins.gov.mz (NI); stephanievanwyk@sun.ac.za (SW); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Houriiyah Tegally

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Jennifer Giandhari

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

James Emmanuel San

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Monika Moir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Sureshnee Pillay

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Christian Utpatel

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Lavanya Singh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Yeshnee Naidoo

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Upasana Ramphal

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Nédio Mabunda

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique

Nuro Abílio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique

Paulo Arnaldo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique

Joicymara Xavier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Unaí, Brasil

Daniel Gyamfi Amoako

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Josie Everatt

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Yajna Ramphal

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Arisha Maharaj

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Leonardo de Araujo

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Ugochukwu J. Anyaneji

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Derek Tshiabuila

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Sofia Viegas

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique

Richard Lessells

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Susan Engelbrecht

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Eduardo Gudo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique

Ilesh Jani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Marracuene, Mozambique

Stefan Niemann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany

Eduan Wilkinson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Túlio de Oliveira

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

nalia.ismael@ins.gov.mz (NI); stephanievanwyk@sun.ac.za (SW); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.