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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda. Electronic address: fionacresswell@doctors.org.uk.
• ² Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• ³ Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda; College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Neurology, Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, São Paulo, Brazil; Laboratório de Investigação Médica 49, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁷ Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• ⁸ Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.