About the Authors

Marit G. Tellevik

Affiliation National Centre for Tropical Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Bjørn Blomberg

Affiliations National Centre for Tropical Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Øyvind Kommedal

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Samuel Y. Maselle

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nina Langeland

Affiliations National Centre for Tropical Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Sabrina J. Moyo

Sabrina.Moyo@uib.no

Affiliations Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MGT BB NL SJM. Data curation: MGT SJM. Formal analysis: MGT ØK SJM. Funding acquisition: NL. Investigation: MGT ØK SJM. Methodology: MGT BB ØK NL SJM. Project administration: NL SJM. Resources: MGT BB ØK SYM NL SJM. Software: MGT BB ØK SJM. Supervision: NL SJM. Validation: MGT BB ØK SYM NL SJM. Visualization: MGT BB ØK SYM NL SJM. Writing – original draft: MGT. Writing – review & editing: MGT BB ØK SYM NL SJM.