About the Authors

Maanda Mudau

Affiliations Centre for Tropical, Opportunistic and Hospital Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, South African Field Epidemiology & Laboratory Training Programme, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Health Systems & Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Rachael Jacobson

Affiliation Centre for Tropical, Opportunistic and Hospital Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nadia Minenza

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Lazarus Kuonza

Affiliations South African Field Epidemiology & Laboratory Training Programme, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Health Systems & Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Vida Morris

Affiliation Provincial Government of Western Cape Department of Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Heather Engelbrecht

Affiliation Provincial Government of Western Cape Department of Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Mark P. Nicol

Affiliations Centre for Tropical, Opportunistic and Hospital Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Colleen Bamford

colleen.bamford@nhls.ac.za

Affiliations Centre for Tropical, Opportunistic and Hospital Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology, 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: MM RJ CB MN. Performed the experiments: MM RJ NM. Analyzed the data: MM RJ MN CB NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM HE. Wrote the paper: MM RJ MN LK CB.