About the Authors

Godfree Mlambo

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Isabelle Coppens

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nirbhay Kumar

nkumar@tulane.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM IC NK. Performed the experiments: GM IC. Analyzed the data: GM IC NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM IC NK. Wrote the paper: GN IC NK.