About the Authors

Samuel Okurut

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

okuruts@gmail.com

Affiliations Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

David R. Boulware

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Yukari C. Manabe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lillian Tugume

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Caleb P. Skipper

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Kenneth Ssebambulidde

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Joshua Rhein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Abdu K. Musubire

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Andrew Akampurira

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Elizabeth C. Okafor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Joseph O. Olobo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Edward N. Janoff

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mucosal and Vaccine Research Program Colorado, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado United States of America

David B. Meya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

for ASTRO Trial Team

Competing Interests

SO was a Fogarty and GlaxoSmithKline-Trust in Science Africa funded doctoral scholar at Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. Part of the work contributed to the doctoral thesis defended at the Makerere University and cited in this article on reference 40. AMK was a member of a study data safety monitoring board.