About the Authors

Emma Birnie

Contributed equally to this work with: Emma Birnie, Gavin C. K. W. Koh

Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gavin C. K. W. Koh

Contributed equally to this work with: Emma Birnie, Gavin C. K. W. Koh

Current address: Diseases of the Developing World, GlaxoSmithKline, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Affiliations Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kindom, Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kindom

Ester C. Löwenberg

Affiliation Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Joost C. M. Meijers

Affiliations Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Plasma Proteins, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rapeephan R. Maude

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nicholas P. J. Day

Affiliations Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, The Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kindom

Sharon J. Peacock

Affiliations Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kindom

Tom van der Poll

Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

W. Joost Wiersinga

w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GCKWK is currently employed by GlaxoSmithKline.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EB GCKWK NPJD SJP WJW. Data curation: EB GCKWK WJW. Formal analysis: EB GCKWK. Funding acquisition: EB GCKWK SJP WJW. Investigation: GCKWK RRM ECL JCMM. Methodology: GCKWK NPJD SJP WJW. Project administration: EB GCKWK WJW. Resources: JCMM NPJD SJP WJW. Supervision: NPJD SJP TvdP WJW. Visualization: EB GCKWK WJW. Writing – original draft: EB GCKWK WJW. Writing – review & editing: EB GCKWK JCMM TvdP WJW.