About the Authors

Jesse Gitaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gitaka, Caroline Ogwang

jgitaka@mku.ac.ke

Affiliations Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya

Caroline Ogwang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Gitaka, Caroline Ogwang

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Moses Ngari

Affiliations Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, The Childhood Acute Illness & Nutrition Network (CHAIN), Nairobi, Kenya

Pauline Akoo

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Ally Olotu

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Christine Kerubo

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Greg Fegan

Affiliations Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Swansea Trials Unit, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Patricia Njuguna

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Godfrey Nyakaya

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Tuda Otieno

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Gabriel Mwambingu

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Ken Awuondo

Affiliation Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Brett Lowe

Affiliations Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Roma Chilengi

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

James A. Berkley

Affiliations Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, The Childhood Acute Illness & Nutrition Network (CHAIN), Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JG PA PN RC JAB. Data curation: CO CK MN GF GN TO GM KA BL. Formal analysis: JG CO MN GF JAB. Funding acquisition: PN AO RC. Investigation: JG CO CK PA PN AO GN TO GM KA BL. Methodology: JG CO MN PN RC JAB. Project administration: JG CO MN PN RC. Resources: PN RC BL. Software: MN GF. Supervision: RC JAB. Validation: MN GF JAB. Visualization: JG CO MN PN RC JAB. Writing – original draft: JG CO. Writing – review & editing: JG CO MN CK PA PN GN TO GM KA BL RC JAB.