About the Authors

Tom H Boyles

Contributed equally to this work with: Tom H Boyles, John Black

tomboyles@yahoo.com

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

John Black

Contributed equally to this work with: Tom H Boyles, John Black

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Graeme Meintjes

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, GF Jooste Hospital, Manenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa

Marc Mendelson

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, 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: TB JB GM MM. Analyzed the data: TB JB. Wrote the paper: TB JB.