About the Authors

Alexandra Schuetz

alexandra.schuetz@afrims.org

Current address: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Walter Reed Program, Department of Retrovirology, USAMC-AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Referral Hospital, Mbeya, Tanzania

Antelmo Haule

Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Referral Hospital, Mbeya, Tanzania

Klaus Reither

Affiliations NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Referral Hospital, Mbeya, Tanzania, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Klinikum of University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Njabulo Ngwenyama

Affiliation Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andrea Rachow

Affiliations NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Referral Hospital, Mbeya, Tanzania, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Klinikum of University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Andreas Meyerhans

Affiliation Institute of Infections Medicine, Institute of Virology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Leonard Maboko

Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Referral Hospital, Mbeya, Tanzania

Richard A. Koup

Affiliation Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Hoelscher

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Klinikum of University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Christof Geldmacher

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Klinikum of University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS AM AH NN CG LM. Performed the experiments: AS AH NN AR KR. Analyzed the data: AS CG MH RAK KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAK MH. Wrote the paper: AS CG MH RAK KR.