About the Authors

Fatima M. Mussa

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

f_mussa@icloud.com (FMM); r.kobbe@uke.de (RK)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Agricola Joachim

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Diagnostic Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Robert Moshiro

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Salim S. Masoud

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Diagnostic Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Marylyn M. Addo

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Institute for Infection Research and Vaccine Development (IIRVD), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Julia Pagel

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Ralf Krumkamp

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

Robin Kobbe

Contributed equally to this work with: Robin Kobbe, Nahya Salim

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

f_mussa@icloud.com (FMM); r.kobbe@uke.de (RK)

Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Institute for Infection Research and Vaccine Development (IIRVD), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

Nahya Salim

Contributed equally to this work with: Robin Kobbe, Nahya Salim

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist. We acknowledge financial support from the Open Access Publication Fund of UKE - Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.