About the Authors

Benson R. Kidenya

benkidenya@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Faculty of Graduate School, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Rodrick Kabangila

Affiliations Faculty of Graduate School, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Robert N. Peck

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Stephen E. Mshana

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Lauren E. Webster

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Serena P. Koenig

Affiliation Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Warren D. Johnson Jr.

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Daniel W. Fitzgerald

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

This study was partly funded by a commercial funder (Pfizer Inc.). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Edited and reviewed critically the manuscript: BRK LEW RK SEM RNP SPK WDJ DWF. Conceived and designed the experiments: BRK SEM WDJ DWF. Performed the experiments: BRK LEW RK RNP. Analyzed the data: BRK SPK LEW SEM RK RNP DWF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SEM SPK WDJ DWF. Wrote the paper: BRK LEW SPK.