About the Authors

Philly O'Riordan

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Uli Schwab

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Sarah Logan

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Graham Cooke

Current address: Imperial College, London and Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Robert J. Wilkinson

Current address: Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Affiliations Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom, Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Robert N. Davidson

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Paul Bassett

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Robert Wall

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Geoffrey Pasvol

Affiliations Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom, Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Katie L. Flanagan

kflanagan@mrc.gm

Current address: MRC Research Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia

Affiliation Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Lister Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OP SU CG PG KLF. Performed the experiments: OP SU LS RW. Analyzed the data: OP BP PG KLF. Wrote the paper: OP CG WJR RD BP RW PG KLF.