About the Authors

Shevin T. Jacob

sjacob2@uw.edu

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher C. Moore

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Patrick Banura

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, Masaka, Uganda

Relana Pinkerton

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

David Meya

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Mulago Hospital Complex, Kampala, Uganda

Pius Opendi

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

Steven J. Reynolds

Affiliations Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda, Department of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nathan Kenya-Mugisha

Affiliation Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Harriet Mayanja-Kizza

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Mulago Hospital Complex, Kampala, Uganda

W. Michael Scheld

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

for the Promoting Resource-limited Interventions for Sepsis Management in Uganda (PRISM-U) Study Group¶

Membership of the PRISM-U Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

W.M.S. serves on the Pfizer anti-infective advisory board. S.T.J., C.C.M., P.B., R.P., D.B.M., P.O., S.J.R., N.K.M, and H.M.K.: no conflict.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STJ CCM PB DBM NKM HMK WMS. Performed the experiments: STJ PB. Analyzed the data: STJ RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PO SJR. Wrote the paper: STJ CCM PB DBM SJR NKM HMK WMS.