About the Authors

Janneke A. Cox

Contributed equally to this work with: Janneke A. Cox, Robert L. Lukande

jannekecox@xs4all.nl

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Robert L. Lukande

Contributed equally to this work with: Janneke A. Cox, Robert L. Lukande

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Ann M. Nelson

Affiliation Joint Pathology Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Harriet Mayanja-Kizza

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Robert Colebunders

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Eric Van Marck

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Yukari C. Manabe

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAC RLL AMN HMK RC YCM. Performed the experiments: JAC RLL AMN EM. Analyzed the data: JAC RLL RC YCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMN HMK RC EM YCM. Wrote the paper: JAC RLL AMN HMK RC EM YCM.