About the Authors

Helen A. Weiss

helen.weiss@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Gabriela Paz Bailey

Affiliation Del Valle University of Guatemala, Guatemala and Tephinet Inc, Decatur, Guatemala

Sam Phiri

Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

Gerard Gresenguet

Affiliation Centre National de Référence pour les Maladies Sexuellement Transmissibles, Bangui, Central African Republic

Jerome LeGoff

Affiliation Paris Diderot University and Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Jacques Pepin

Affiliation Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

David A. Lewis

Affiliations London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Laurent Belec

Affiliation Paris Diderot University and Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Irving F. Hoffman

Affiliation University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

William C. Miller

Affiliation University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Philippe Mayaud

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HAW GPB SP GG JL JP DAL LB IH WCM PM. Performed the experiments: GPB SP GG LB PM. Analyzed the data: HAW GPB SP. Wrote the paper: HAW GPB SP JL JP DAL LB IH WCM PM.