About the Authors

Ongeziwe Taku

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Tracy L. Meiring

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

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Inger Gustavsson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology, Biomedical Center, Science for Life Laboratory Uppsala, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Keletso Phohlo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mirta Garcia-Jardon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology at Walter Sisulu University and National Health Laboratory Service, Mthatha, South Africa

Zizipho Z. A. Mbulawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, SAMRC Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Medical Virology, National Health Laboratory Service, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Mthatha, South Africa

Charles B. Businge

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Mthatha, South Africa, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa

Ulf Gyllensten

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology, Biomedical Center, Science for Life Laboratory Uppsala, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Anna-Lise Williamson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

anna-lise.williamson@uct.ac.za

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, SAMRC Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.