About the Authors

Michèle Bergeron

Contributed equally to this work with: Michèle Bergeron, Géraldine Daneau

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, National Laboratory for HIV Immunology, Ottawa, Canada

Géraldine Daneau

Contributed equally to this work with: Michèle Bergeron, Géraldine Daneau

gdaneau@itg.be

Affiliation Immunology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Tao Ding

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, National Laboratory for HIV Immunology, Ottawa, Canada

Nadia E. Sitoe

Affiliation Instituto Nacional da Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique

Larry E. Westerman

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jocelijn Stokx

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

Ilesh V. Jani

Affiliation Instituto Nacional da Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique

Lindi M. Coetzee

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lesley Scott

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology, Johannesburg, South Africa

Anja De Weggheleire

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

Luc Boel

Affiliation Immunology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Wendy S. Stevens

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology, Johannesburg, South Africa

Deborah K. Glencross

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Science, School of Pathology, Johannesburg, South Africa

Trevor F. Peter

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Maputo, Mozambique

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB LW TP LC WS. Performed the experiments: LB NS. Analyzed the data: TD MB GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD MB JS ADW DG LS IJ LW. Wrote the paper: MB GD JS TP DG.