About the Authors

Nobubelo K. Ngandu

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

Nobubelo.Ngandu@mrc.ac.za

Affiliations HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Burtram C. Fielding

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular Biology and Virology Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Peter van Heusden

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Kuhle Mcinga

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Kriheska Francis

Roles Investigation

Affiliation HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Gordon Harkins

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.