About the Authors

Simon Chengo Masha

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

schengo@gmail.com

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biological Sciences, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

Collins Owuor

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

Joyce Mwongeli Ngoi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

Piet Cools

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Eduard J. Sanders

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mario Vaneechoutte

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Tania Crucitti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat, Antwerp, Belgium

Etienne P. de Villiers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine Research Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Public Health, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.