About the Authors

Alane Izu

izua@rmpru.co.za

Affiliation Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Respiratory & Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Science, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Ted Cohen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Victor DeGruttola

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI TC VD. Performed the experiments: AI. Analyzed the data: AI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AI VD. Wrote the paper: AI TC VD.