About the Authors

Mehul Dhorda

Affiliations Epicentre, Mbarara, Uganda, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche S 945, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Dan Nyehangane

Affiliation Epicentre, Mbarara, Uganda

Laurent Rénia

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Biopolis, Singapore

Patrice Piola

Affiliations Epicentre, Mbarara, Uganda, Epicentre, Paris, France, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Philippe J. Guerin

Affiliations Epicentre, Paris, France, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Georges Snounou

georges.snounou@upmc.fr

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche S 945, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Biopolis, Singapore

Competing Interests

Laurent Rénia and Georges Snounou are academic editors for PLoS.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD LR PP PJG GS. Performed the experiments: MD DN GS. Analyzed the data: MD LR PP PJG GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR. Wrote the paper: MD GS. Provided clinical and operational support and ethical oversight: PP PJG.