About the Authors

Vineet Joag

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

joag0001@umn.edu (VJ); rupert.kaul@utoronto.ca (RK)

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aida Sivro

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Microbiology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Hajra Imam

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Natasha Samsunder

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Salim Abdool Karim

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lyle McKinnon

Contributed equally to this work with: Lyle McKinnon, Rupert Kaul

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Microbiology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Rupert Kaul

Contributed equally to this work with: Lyle McKinnon, Rupert Kaul

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

joag0001@umn.edu (VJ); rupert.kaul@utoronto.ca (RK)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.