About the Authors

Andrew D. McCallum

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. McCallum, Deborah Nyirenda

andrew.mccallum@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Deborah Nyirenda

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. McCallum, Deborah Nyirenda

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Wezzie Lora

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Saye H. Khoo

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Derek J. Sloan

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Henry C. Mwandumba

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Nicola Desmond

‡ ND and GRD are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Geraint R. Davies

‡ ND and GRD are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ADM DN SHK DJS HCM ND GRD. Data curation: ADM DN WL. Formal analysis: ADM DN WL ND. Funding acquisition: ADM SHK DJS HCM GRD. Investigation: ADM DN. Methodology: ADM DN ND. Project administration: ADM DN. Supervision: DJS SHK HCM ND GRD. Validation: ADM DN WL ND. Writing – original draft: ADM DN. Writing – review & editing: ADM DN WL SHK DJS HCM ND GRD.