About the Authors

Ntobeko B. A. Ntusi

Affiliation The Cardiac Clinic, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Motasim Badri

Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Hoosain Khalfey

Affiliations Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Critical Care, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Andrew Whitelaw

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Stephen Oliver

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Jenna Piercy

Affiliation Department of Critical Care, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Richard Raine

Affiliation Department of Critical Care, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Ivan Joubert

Affiliation Department of Critical Care, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Keertan Dheda

keertan.dheda@uct.ac.za

Current address: Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

Affiliations Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Critical Care, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD NN. Performed the experiments: NN. Analyzed the data: NN MB HK KD. Wrote the paper: NN MB HK AW SO JP RR IJ KD. Serves as guarantor of this work: KD.