About the Authors

Stephan Karl

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Karl, Connie S. N. Li Wai Suen, Holger W. Unger

Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Connie S. N. Li Wai Suen

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Karl, Connie S. N. Li Wai Suen, Holger W. Unger

Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Holger W. Unger

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Karl, Connie S. N. Li Wai Suen, Holger W. Unger

Affiliations Department of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNG IMR), Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Maria Ome-Kaius

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNG IMR), Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Glen Mola

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Lisa White

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Regina A. Wangnapi

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNG IMR), Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Stephen J. Rogerson

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Ivo Mueller

mueller@wehi.edu.au

Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

Pfizer Inc. partly funded this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJR IM MO HWU SK. Performed the experiments: MO RW HWU. Analyzed the data: SK HWU CSNLWS MO RW LW IM. Wrote the paper: SK HWU CSNLWS MO GM LW RW SJR IM.