About the Authors

Jenny Svärd

jenny.s.svard@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Sabina Mugusi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Doreen Mloka

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

Ujjwal Neogi

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Genny Meini

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Ferdinand Mugusi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Francesca Incardona

Affiliation EuResist Network GEIE, Roma, Italy

Maurizio Zazzi

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Anders Sönnerborg

Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

MZ has received grants and/or lecture or advisory board memberships from ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences and Janssen-Cilag. AS has received grants and/or lecture or advisory board memberships from ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, Janssen-Cilag and GSK. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AS FM DM. Data curation: SM JS. Formal analysis: JS UN. Funding acquisition: AS. Investigation: SM JS. Methodology: MZ GM UN FI. Project administration: AS DM SM JS. Resources: AS DM SM. Software: FI. Supervision: AS. Writing – original draft: AS JS. Writing – review & editing: JS SM DM UN GM FM FI MZ AS.