About the Authors

Janusz T. Paweska

januszp@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Petrus Jansen van Vuren

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Gunther H. Meier

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Chantel le Roux

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Ousman S. Conteh

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Alan Kemp

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Cardia Fourie

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Prabha Naidoo

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Serisha Naicker

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Phumza Ohaebosim

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Nadia Storm

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Orienka Hellferscee

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lisa K. Ming Sun

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Busisiwe Mogodi

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Nishi Prabdial-Sing

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Desiree du Plessis

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Deidre Greyling

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Shayne Loubser

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mark Goosen

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Stewart D. McCulloch

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Terence P. Scott

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Alexandra Moerdyk

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Wesley Dlamini

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Kelfala Konneh

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Idrissa L. Kamara

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Dauda Sowa

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Samuel Sorie

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Brima Kargbo

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Shabir A. Madhi

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JTP PJvV GHM. Data curation: JTP PJvV OSC. Formal analysis: JTP PJvV OSC. Funding acquisition: JTP. Investigation: JTP PJvV ClR OSC AK CF PN SN PO NS OH LKMS BM NPS DdP DG SL MG SDM TPS AM WD KK ILK DS SS. Methodology: JTP PJvV GHM. Project administration: JTP BK SAM. Resources: JTP. Supervision: JTP BK SAM. Writing – original draft: JTP. Writing – review & editing: JTP PJvV AK OH SL SDM TPS SAM.