About the Authors

Charles Torgbor

Affiliations Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Kumasi, Ghana

Peter Awuah

Affiliation EENT Clinic, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and PAKS Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Kirk Deitsch

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Parisa Kalantari

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen A. Duca

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen A. Duca, David A. Thorley-Lawson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Kumasi, Ghana

David A. Thorley-Lawson

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen A. Duca, David A. Thorley-Lawson

david.thorley-lawson@tufts.edu

Affiliation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DATL KAD. Performed the experiments: CT. Analyzed the data: CT DATL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PA KD PK. Wrote the paper: CT DATL.