About the Authors

Rou Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Rou Zhang, Wenn-Chyau Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore

Wenn-Chyau Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Rou Zhang, Wenn-Chyau Lee

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Yee-Ling Lau

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Letusa Albrecht

Current address: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz—FIOCRUZ, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Affiliation Laboratory of Tropical Diseases, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas-SP, Brazil

Stefanie C. P. Lopes

Current address: Instituto Leônidas e Marie Deane, FIOCRUZ, Manaus, AM, Brazil

Affiliation Laboratory of Tropical Diseases, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas-SP, Brazil

Fabio T. M. Costa

Affiliation Laboratory of Tropical Diseases, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas-SP, Brazil

Rossarin Suwanarusk

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Francois Nosten

Affiliations Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, MaeSot, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Brian M. Cooke

Affiliation Programs in Infection and Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Laurent Rénia

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Bruce Russell

b.russell@otago.ac.nz

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: FTMC, FN, LR and BR are academic editors for PLoS One.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BR WCL RZ. Data curation: BR WCL RZ. Formal analysis: BR WCL RZ. Funding acquisition: BR LR FN FTMC YLL. Investigation: BR LR BMC RS SCPL LA WCL. Methodology: BMC RS SCPL LA WCL RZ. Project administration: BR LR FN YLL. Resources: BR LR FN. Software: RZ. Supervision: BR LR FTMC YLL. Validation: RS RZ. Visualization: RZ. Writing - original draft: BR WCL. Writing - review & editing: BR LR BMC FN RS FTMC SCPL LA YLL WCL RZ.