About the Authors

Freddie Bwanga

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Melle Haile

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Moses L. Joloba

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Emmanuel Ochom

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Sven Hoffner

sven.hoffner@smi.se

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB MLJ MH SH. Performed the experiments: FB EO. Analyzed the data: FB MLJ SH MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH MH MLJ. Wrote the paper: FB MH MLJ SH.