About the Authors

Maja Verena Nielsen

maja.v.nielsen@googlemail.com

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany

Solomon Amemasor

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Alex Agyekum

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Wibke Loag

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Florian Marks

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Nimako Sarpong

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

Denise Dekker

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany

Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Affiliation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medical Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana

Jürgen May

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVN SA WL NS JM. Performed the experiments: MVN SA AA DD. Analyzed the data: MVN WL JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM NS YAS JM. Wrote the paper: MVN JM.