About the Authors

Adwoa Asante-Poku

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Asante-Poku, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Sebastien Gagneux

Affiliations Bacteriology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Asante-Poku, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Sebastien Gagneux

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

Isaac Darko Otchere

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

Samuel Y. Aboagye

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

David Stucki

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Jan Hattendorf

Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Sonia Borrell

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Julia Feldmann

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Emelia Danso

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

Sebastien Gagneux

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Asante-Poku, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Sebastien Gagneux

sebastien.gagneux@unibas.ch

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 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: AAP DYM SG. Performed the experiments: AAP IDO SYA JF ED. Analyzed the data: AAP DYM JH SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DYM SB DS SG. Wrote the paper: AAP DYM SG.