About the Authors

Rena C. Patel

rcpatel@uw.edu

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Josephine Odoyo

Affiliation Centre for Microbiologic Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

Keerthana Anand

Affiliation Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Gaelen Stanford-Moore

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Imeldah Wakhungu

Affiliation Centre for Microbiologic Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

Elizabeth A. Bukusi

Affiliations Centre for Microbiologic Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jared M. Baeten

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, Global Health, and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Joelle M. Brown

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RCP. Data curation: RCP J. Brown GSM KA. Formal analysis: KA GSM RCP J. Brown JO IW. Funding acquisition: J. Brown EAB. Investigation: GSM IW JO RCP EAB J. Brown. Methodology: RCP J. Brown JO GSM. Project administration: JO IW RCP. Resources: RCP J. Brown EAB. Software: KA GSM RCP. Supervision: EAB J. Brown RCP. Validation: JO IW RCP. Writing – original draft: RCP KA. Writing – review & editing: RCP KA J. Brown J. Baeten EAB JO GSM IW.