About the Authors

Enoch Sepako

enoch.sepako@mopipi.ub.bw

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sarah J. Glennie

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kondwani C. Jambo

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

David Mzinza

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Oluwadamilola H. Iwajomo

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Division of Clinical Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Dominic Banda

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Joep J. van Oosterhout

Affiliation Dignitas International, Zomba, Malawi

Neil A. Williams

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Stephen B. Gordon

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Robert S. Heyderman

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES SBG RSH. Performed the experiments: ES DM DB. Analyzed the data: ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJO KCJ OHI SJG. Wrote the paper: ES RSH. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: SBG KCJ SJG JJO NAW. Study Supervision: ES JJO RSH.