About the Authors

Felix S. Dube

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix S. Dube, Suzan P. van Mens

fdube82@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Suzan P. van Mens

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix S. Dube, Suzan P. van Mens

Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands

Lourens Robberts

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Nicole Wolter

Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis (CRDM), National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Paul Nicol

Affiliation The State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

Joseph Mafofo

Affiliation Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research (CPGR), Cape Town, South Africa

Samantha Africa

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Heather J. Zar

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, MRC Unit on Child and Adolesscent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mark P. Nicol

Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR SvM NW JM HZ MN FSD. Performed the experiments: FSD SvM JM. Analyzed the data: FSD SvM PN NW JM HZ MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NW JM HZ MN PN FSD. Wrote the paper: FSD SvM PN NW JM LR HZ MN.