About the Authors

Godfrey A. Dzhivhuho

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

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, Myles H. Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retrovirus Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Samantha A. Rehrl

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Hlumani Ndlovu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

William G. C. Horsnell

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Laboratory of Molecular and Experimental Immunology and Neurogenetics, Centre Nationnal de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Orleans and Le Studium Institute for Advanced Studies, Rue Dupanloup, Orléans, France

Frank Brombacher

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, International Centre for Genomic Engineering and Biotechnology–Cape Town Component, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Anna-Lise Williamson

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Gerald K. Chege

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Gerald.Chege@mrc.ac.za

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.