About the Authors
- Jonathan G. Peter
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Grant Theron
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Keertan Dheda
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* E-mail: Keertan.Dheda@uct.ac.za
Affiliations Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Infection, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Keertan Dheda has received speaker fees and in-kind co-funding from Alere in the form of ELISA and LAM strip tests free of charge. Keertan Dheda is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products related to this work to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JP KD. Analyzed the data: JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GT. Wrote the paper: JP KD GT.