About the Authors

Chris Finan

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris Finan, Martin O. C. Ota

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Sussex, United Kingdom

Martin O. C. Ota

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris Finan, Martin O. C. Ota

Affiliation MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia

Arnaud Marchant

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, Belgium

Melanie J. Newport

m.j.newport@bsms.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Sussex, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM MJN. Performed the experiments: MO. Analyzed the data: CF MJN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM. Wrote the paper: CF MO AM MJN.