About the Authors

Jim Todd

jim.todd@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Gabriele Riedner

Affiliations Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, National Institute for Medical Research - Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Mbeya, Tanzania

Leonard Maboko

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research - Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Mbeya, Tanzania

Michael Hoelscher

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Klinikum, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Helen A. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Eligius Lyamuya

Affiliation Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

David Mabey

Affiliation Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Mary Rusizoka

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research - Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Mbeya, Tanzania

Laurent Belec

Affiliations Laboratoire de Microbiologie, hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Université Paris Descartes (Paris V), Paris, France

Richard Hayes

Affiliation Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GR MH DM RH LB. Performed the experiments: GR MR LM EL. Analyzed the data: GR JT HW RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB ES EL MH. Wrote the paper: JT GR RH HW.