About the Authors

Gila Lustig

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

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa

Sandile Cele

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Farina Karim

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Anne Derache

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

Abigail Ngoepe

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

Khadija Khan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Bernadett I. Gosnell

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Ntombi Ntshuba

Roles Investigation

‡ Unavailable.

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

Suzaan Marais

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Prakash M. Jeena

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Discipline of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Katya Govender

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

John Adamson

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

Henrik Kløverpris

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ravindra K. Gupta

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rohen Harrichandparsad

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Vinod B. Patel

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Alex Sigal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alex.sigal@ahri.org

Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Author Ntombi Ntshuba was unable to confirm their authorship contributions. On their behalf, the corresponding author has reported their contributions to the best of their knowledge.