About the Authors

Grace W. Irimu

girimu@nairobi.kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

David Gathara

Affiliation Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Dejan Zurovac

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Harrison Kihara

Affiliation Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Christopher Maina

Affiliation Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Julius Mwangi

Affiliation Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Jim Todd

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

Alexandra Greene

Affiliation Child Health, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Mike English

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GI ME. Performed the experiments: GI ME. Analyzed the data: GI ME JT DZ. Wrote the paper: GI ME DZ JT DG AG HK DM CM JM.