About the Authors

Katharina Röltgen

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Weihong Qi

Current address: Functional Genomics Center Zurich, UZH/ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marie-Thérèse Ruf

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ernestina Mensah-Quainoo

Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health, Tema, Ghana

Sacha J. Pidot

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Timothy P. Stinear

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Michael Käser

Current address: Ghanaian-German Centre for Health Research, School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Gerd Pluschke

gerd.pluschke@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KR WQ MTR MK GP. Performed the experiments: KR. Analyzed the data: KR SJP TS TPS GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EMQ DYM. Wrote the paper: KR GP.