About the Authors

Toby Leslie

toby.leslie@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, HealthNet-TPO, Kabul, Afghanistan

Ismail Mayan

Affiliation HealthNet-TPO, Kabul, Afghanistan

Nasir Mohammed

Affiliation HealthNet-TPO, Kabul, Afghanistan

Panna Erasmus

Affiliation HealthNet-TPO, Kabul, Afghanistan

Jan Kolaczinski

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Christopher J. M. Whitty

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Mark Rowland

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

TL, MR and CW have received funds for investigator-initiated research from GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and CW from Pfizer. All other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL PE JK CJMW MR. Performed the experiments: TL IM NM. Analyzed the data: TL CJMW MR. Wrote the paper: TL CJMW MR.