About the Authors

Musalula Sinkala

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

smsinks@icloud.com (MS); stefan.barth@uct.ac.za (SB)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine & Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Computational Biology Division, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Krupa Naran

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Medical Biotechnology & Immunotherapy Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Dharanidharan Ramamurthy

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Medical Biotechnology & Immunotherapy Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Neelakshi Mungra

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Medical Biotechnology & Immunotherapy Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Kevin Dzobo

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Medical Research Council-SA Wound Healing Unit, Hair and Skin Research Laboratory, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

Darren Martin

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine & Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Computational Biology Division, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Stefan Barth

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

smsinks@icloud.com (MS); stefan.barth@uct.ac.za (SB)

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Medical Biotechnology & Immunotherapy Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, South African Research Chair in Cancer Biotechnology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.