About the Authors

Kewreshini K. Naidoo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Zesuliwe B. Shangase

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Tabassum Rashid

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Ayanda Ngubane

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Nasreen Ismail

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Thumbi Ndung’u

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Christina F. Thobakgale

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

christina.thobakgale@wits.ac.za

Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.