About the Authors

Miguel Reina Ortiz

Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel Reina Ortiz, Fernanda Schreiber

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para Investigación en Salud, Quinindé, Ecuador, Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Fernanda Schreiber

Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel Reina Ortiz, Fernanda Schreiber

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Susana Benitez

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para Investigación en Salud, Quinindé, Ecuador

Nely Broncano

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para Investigación en Salud, Quinindé, Ecuador

Martha E. Chico

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para Investigación en Salud, Quinindé, Ecuador, Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Maritza Vaca

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para Investigación en Salud, Quinindé, Ecuador, Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Neal Alexander

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

David J. Lewis

Affiliation St. George's Vaccine Institute, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

Gordon Dougan

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Philip J. Cooper

P.J.Cooper@liv.ac.uk

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para Investigación en Salud, Quinindé, Ecuador, Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, Centre for Infection, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom, Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJC MRO MEC DJL GD. Performed the experiments: MRO FS SB NB MV. Analyzed the data: MRO FS NA PJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD DJL. Wrote the paper: PJC MRO FS GD.