About the Authors

Naseem Cassim

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

naseem.cassim@wits.ac.za

Affiliations Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub (DIH), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programme (NPP), Johannesburg, South Africa

Lindi Marie Coetzee

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

Affiliations Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub (DIH), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programme (NPP), Johannesburg, South Africa

Manuel Pedro da Silva

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programme (NPP), Johannesburg, South Africa

Wendy Susan Stevens

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Susan Stevens, Deborah Kim Glencross

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub (DIH), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programme (NPP), Johannesburg, South Africa

Deborah Kim Glencross

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Susan Stevens, Deborah Kim Glencross

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wits Diagnostics Innovation Hub (DIH), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Priority Programme (NPP), Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.