About the Authors

Lia S. Rotherham

Affiliations Emerging Health Technologies Platform, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Biosciences Unit, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Charlotte Maserumule

Affiliations Emerging Health Technologies Platform, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Biosciences Unit, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Keertan Dheda

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Jacques Theron

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Makobetsa Khati

Mkhati@csir.co.za

Affiliations Emerging Health Technologies Platform, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Biosciences Unit, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSR CM KD JT MK. Performed the experiments: LSR CM. Analyzed the data: LSR CM KD JT MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD. Wrote the paper: LSR CM KD JT MK.