About the Authors

Tosi M. Mwakyandile

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

tosimwakys@gmail.com, tosi.mwakyandile@muhas.ac.tz

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Grace A. Shayo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Philip G. Sasi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Peter P. Kunambi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Ferdinand M. Mugusi

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Godfrey Barabona

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Centre for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Takamasa Ueno

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Centre for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Diagnostic Medicine, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Eligius F. Lyamuya

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Diagnostic Medicine, Campus College of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Collaboration Unit for Infection, Joint Research Centre for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.