About the Authors

Joep J. van Oosterhout

joepvanoosterhout@gmail.com

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Jane Mallewa

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Symon Kaunda

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Newton Chagoma

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Yassin Njalale

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Elizabeth Kampira

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Division of Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mavuto Mukaka

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Robert S. Heyderman

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJvO JM RSH. Performed the experiments: JJvO JM SK YN EK. Analyzed the data: JJvO NC MM. Wrote the paper: JJvO JM SK EK YN NC MM RSH.