About the Authors

Tamrat Abebe

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Asrat Hailu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mihretu Woldeyes

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Woinshet Mekonen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kassahun Bilcha

Affiliation Department of Dermatovenerology, Gondar University, Gondar, Ethiopia

Thomas Cloke

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Lionel Fry

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nafisa-Katrin Seich al Basatena

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Karina Corware

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Manuel Modolell

Affiliation Department of Cellular Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany

Markus Munder

Affiliation Third Department of Medicine (Hematology, Oncology, and Pneumology), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Ingrid Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid Müller, Pascale Kropf

i.muller@imperial.ac.uk (IM); Pascale.Kropf@lshtm.ac.uk (PK)

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Pascale Kropf

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid Müller, Pascale Kropf

i.muller@imperial.ac.uk (IM); Pascale.Kropf@lshtm.ac.uk (PK)

Affiliation Infection and Immunology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA AH IM PK. Performed the experiments: TA MW WM TC KC PK. Analyzed the data: TA AH KB TC NKSaB LF M. Modolell M. Munder FTC IM PK. Wrote the paper: TA IM PK.