About the Authors

Uzochukwu Egere

uegere@mrc.gm (UE); Philip.hill@otago.ac.nz (PCH)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

John Townend

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

Anna Roca

Affiliations Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia, Barcelona Center for International Health Research, Barcelona, Spain

Abiodun Akinsanya

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

Abdoulie Bojang

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

David Nsekpong

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

Brian Greenwood

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Richard A. Adegbola

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Wavre, Belgium

Philip C. Hill

uegere@mrc.gm (UE); Philip.hill@otago.ac.nz (PCH)

Affiliations Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, The Gambia, Centre for International Health, School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PH RA BG. Performed the experiments: UE AR PH RA AA AB DN. Analyzed the data: JT UE PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT AR UE PH RA BG. Wrote the paper: UE PH JT AR RA BG.