About the Authors
- Kany-Kany Angelique Luabeya
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Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal, Somkhele, South Africa
- Nontobeko Mpontshane
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Affiliation Church of Scotland Hospital, Tugela Ferry, South Africa
- Malanie Mackay
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Honorine Ward
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Affiliation Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts-New England Medical Centre, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Inga Elson
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Affiliation Department of Chemical Pathology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Meera Chhagan
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Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Andrew Tomkins
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Affiliation Centre for International Child Health, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Jan Van den Broeck
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Affiliation Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
- Michael L. Bennish
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mbennish@hotmail.com
Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Principal investigator for the study: MLB. Served as Project Directors: JVdB KAL. Supervised the field work for the study: NM. Conducted the laboratory studies: MM HW IE. Designed the study: MLB AT. Wrote the grant proposal: MLB. Wrote the initial study protocol: MLB JVdB. Revised the study protocol: KAL JVdB MLB. Designed the analysis plan and conducted the analysis: JVdB MLB. Drafted the manuscript: MLB KAL JVdB. Critically reviewed and approved the manuscript: all authors.