About the Authors

Solima Sabeel

Contributed equally to this work with: Solima Sabeel, Bongani Motaung, Kim A. Nguyen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town Component, Cape Town, South Africa

Bongani Motaung

Contributed equally to this work with: Solima Sabeel, Bongani Motaung, Kim A. Nguyen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town Component, Cape Town, South Africa

Kim A. Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Solima Sabeel, Bongani Motaung, Kim A. Nguyen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Mumin Ozturk

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town Component, Cape Town, South Africa

Sandra L. Mukasa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH), Department of Medicine and Cape Heart Institute, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Karen Wolmarans

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH), Department of Medicine and Cape Heart Institute, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Dirk J. Blom

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Lipidology, Department of Medicine and Cape Heart Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Karen Sliwa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cape Heart Institute and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Emmanuel Nepolo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Gunar Günther

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Human, Biological & Translational Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Allergology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

Robert J. Wilkinson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom, Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Claudia Schacht

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Linq management GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Andre Pascal Kengne

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Friedrich Thienemann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

reto.guler@uct.ac.za (RG); friedrich.thienemann@uct.ac.za (FT)

‡ FT and RG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH), Department of Medicine and Cape Heart Institute, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre (CUBIC), University of Cape Town, South Africa

Reto Guler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

reto.guler@uct.ac.za (RG); friedrich.thienemann@uct.ac.za (FT)

‡ FT and RG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town Component, Cape Town, South Africa, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.