About the Authors

Martie van der Walt

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Joey Lancaster, Karen Shean

dwalt@mrc.ac.za

Affiliation Tuberculosis Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Joey Lancaster

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Joey Lancaster, Karen Shean

Affiliation Tuberculosis Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Karen Shean

Contributed equally to this work with: Martie van der Walt, Joey Lancaster, Karen Shean

Affiliation Tuberculosis Platform, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW JL KS. Performed the experiments: MW JL KS. Analyzed the data: MW JL KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW JL KS. Wrote the paper: MW JL KS.