About the Authors

Gert Marais

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

gert.marais16@alumni.imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital Virology Diagnostic Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Michelle Naidoo

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

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital Virology Diagnostic Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Nei-yuan Hsiao

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital Virology Diagnostic Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Ziyaad Valley-Omar

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital Tissue Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Heidi Smuts

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital Virology Diagnostic Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Diana Hardie

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

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital Virology Diagnostic Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.