About the Authors

Clement Zeh

czeh@ke.cdc.gov

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Pauli N. Amornkul

Current address: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Seth Inzaule

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute/U.S. CDC Research and Public Health, Kisumu, Kenya

Pascale Ondoa

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Infection and Immunity (CINIMA), Center for Poverty-Related Communicable Diseases (CPCD), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Boaz Oyaro

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute/U.S. CDC Research and Public Health, Kisumu, Kenya

Dufton M. Mwaengo

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Hilde Vandenhoudt

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium

Anthony Gichangi

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

John Williamson

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Timothy Thomas

Current address: Arctic Investigations Program, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Kevin M. DeCock

Current address: Centre for Global Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Clyde Hart

Affiliation Global AIDS Program, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John Nkengasong

Affiliation Global AIDS Program, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kayla Laserson

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Kenya), Kisumu, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT PNA CZ DMM HV KMD JN. Performed the experiments: CZ SI BO. Analyzed the data: CH CZ AG JW PO KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT KL KMD JN PNA HV. Wrote the paper: CZ JN SI. Read and reviewed the manuscript: CZ PNA SI PO BO DMM HV AG JW TT KMD CH JN KL.