About the Authors

Bonaventura C. T. Mpondo

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

Samuel E. Kalluvya

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

Robert N. Peck

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Rodrick Kabangila

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

Benson R. Kidenya

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Lucheri Ephraim

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

Daniel W. Fitzgerald

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jennifer A. Downs

jna2002@med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM SK RP DF JD. Performed the experiments: BM SK LE JD. Analyzed the data: BM RP RK BK DF JD. Wrote the paper: BM SK RP RK BK LE DF JD.