About the Authors

Tess Bright

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tess.bright@lshtm.ac.uk

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Wakisa Mulwafu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Ear Nose and Throat Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

Richard Thindwa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Ear Nose and Throat Department, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

Maria Zuurmond

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sarah Polack

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.