About the Authors
- Osman Abdullahi
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* E-mail: oabdulla@hsph.harvard.edu
Affiliations Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Angela Karani
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Caroline C. Tigoi
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Daisy Mugo
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Stella Kungu
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Eva Wanjiru
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Jane Jomo
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Robert Musyimi
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya
- Marc Lipsitch
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Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- J. Anthony G. Scott
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Professor Scott has received grant support from GSK and travel/accommodation support to attend a Merck meeting. Professor Lipsitch has been paid for consultancy services by Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Pfizer/Wyeth Vaccines, Avian/Pandemic Flu Registry (Outcome Sciences), i3 Innovus (consulting company that works for pharmas) and AIR (a company developing risk model for pandemic flu). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: OA JAGS. Performed the experiments: AK CT DM SK EW JJ RM OA. Analyzed the data: OA JAGS ML. Wrote the paper: OA JAGS ML.