About the Authors

Reshma Kassanjee

r.kassanjee@gmail.com

Affiliations South African DST/NRF Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Alex Welte

Affiliation South African DST/NRF Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Thomas A. McWalter

Affiliations South African DST/NRF Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sheila M. Keating

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Marion Vermeulen

Affiliation South African National Blood Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Susan L. Stramer

Affiliation Scientific Support Office, American Red Cross, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Michael P. Busch

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPB. Performed the experiments: MPB SMK MV SLS. Analyzed the data: RK AW TAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPB SMK MV SLS AW TAM RK. Wrote the paper: RK AW TM.