About the Authors
- Keertan Dheda
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* E-mail: keertan.dheda@uct.ac.za
Affiliations Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Infection, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
- Virginia Davids
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Laura Lenders
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Teri Roberts
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Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Richard Meldau
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Daphne Ling
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Laurence Brunet
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Richard van Zyl Smit
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Jonathan Peter
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Clare Green
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Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Infection, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
- Motasim Badri
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Affiliation Clinical Research Support Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Leonardo Sechi
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, University of Sardinia, Sassari, Italy
- Surendra Sharma
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
- Michael Hoelscher
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Klinikum of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Rodney Dawson
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Affiliation Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and Clinical Immunology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Andrew Whitelaw
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Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Jonathan Blackburn
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Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Madhukar Pai
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Alimuddin Zumla
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Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Infection, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KD SS. Performed the experiments: LML TR RM LB. Analyzed the data: KD VD LML TR DL LB CG MB AW JB MPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD RNvZS JP CG LAS SS MH RD AW JB MPM AZ. Wrote the paper: KD VD DL LB RNvZS JP LAS SS MH MPM.