About the Authors

Adam K. A. Wright

aw287@le.ac.uk (AKAW); sbgordon@liv.ac.uk (SBG)

Current address: Institute of Lung Health, Respiratory Biomedical Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust & University of Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre in Microbial Diseases, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Mathieu Bangert

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jenna F. Gritzfeld

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Daniela M. Ferreira

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Kondwani C. Jambo

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre, Malawi

Angela D. Wright

Affiliation Comprehensive Local Research Network, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Andrea M. Collins

Affiliations Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre in Microbial Diseases, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Stephen B. Gordon

aw287@le.ac.uk (AKAW); sbgordon@liv.ac.uk (SBG)

Affiliation Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed Bronchoscopy and Lavage: AMC SBG. Obtained ethics: ADW AMC SBG. Conceived and designed the experiments: AKAW MB JFG DMF KCJ ADW AMC SBG. Performed the experiments: AKAW MB JFG DMF KCJ ADW AMC SBG. Analyzed the data: AKAW MB JFG DMF KCJ ADW AMC SBG. Wrote the paper: AKAW SBG.