About the Authors

Kessendri Reddy

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

kessendri@yahoo.com, kessendri.reddy@nhls.ac.za

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Adrie Bekker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Andrew C. Whitelaw

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Tonya M. Esterhuizen

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

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Angela Dramowski

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.