About the Authors

Hassan Mahomed

hassan.mahomed@uct.ac.za

Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Tony Hawkridge

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Suzanne Verver

Affiliation KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, and CINIMA, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deborah Abrahams

Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Lawrence Geiter

Current address: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Mark Hatherill

Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Rodney Ehrlich

Affiliation School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Willem A. Hanekom

Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Gregory D. Hussey

Affiliations South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM TH SV LG WAH GDH. Performed the experiments: HM DA. Analyzed the data: HM SV DA RE. Wrote the paper: HM. Manuscript review: TH SV DA LG MH RE WAH GDH.