About the Authors

Jessica H. Chertow

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica H. Chertow, Matthew S. Alkaitis

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew S. Alkaitis

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica H. Chertow, Matthew S. Alkaitis

Affiliations Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford, United Kingdom

Glenn Nardone

Affiliation Research Technology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Allison K. Ikeda

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Aubrey J. Cunnington

Affiliation Section of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Joseph Okebe

Affiliation MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia

Augustine O. Ebonyi

Affiliation MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia

Madi Njie

Affiliation MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia

Simon Correa

Affiliation MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia

Shamanthi Jayasooriya

Affiliation MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia

Climent Casals-Pascual

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Oliver Billker

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton Cambridge, United Kingdom

David J. Conway

Affiliations MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

Michael Walther

Affiliation MRC Unit, Fajara, The Gambia

Hans Ackerman

hans.ackerman@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHC MSA GN HA. Performed the experiments: JHC MSA GN AKI AJC. Analyzed the data: JHC MSA GN HA. Wrote the paper: JHC MSA HA. Contributed to enrollment, clinical laboratory testing and patient data collection: AOE MN JO SC SJ CCP DJC MW Contributed mouse model expertise: OB.