About the Authors

Yun Shan Goh

Affiliation Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Biopolis, Singapore

Francesca Necchi

Affiliation Sclavo Behring Vaccines Institute for Global Health, a GlaxoSmith Kline Company, Siena, Italy

Colette M. O’Shaughnessy

Affiliation School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medicine and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Francesca Micoli

Affiliation Sclavo Behring Vaccines Institute for Global Health, a GlaxoSmith Kline Company, Siena, Italy

Massimiliano Gavini

Affiliation GlaxoSmith Kline, Siena, Italy

Stephen P. Young

Affiliation Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Chisomo L. Msefula

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Pathology, Division of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Esther N. Gondwe

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Wilson L. Mandala

Affiliation Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Melita A. Gordon

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Allan J. Saul

Affiliation Sclavo Behring Vaccines Institute for Global Health, a GlaxoSmith Kline Company, Siena, Italy

Calman A. MacLennan

calman.maclennan@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medicine and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: FN, FM and AJS are employees of the GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health and MAG is an employee of GSK vaccines. YSG and CAM were formerly employees of the Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health. For the remaining authors, no conflicts of interest were declared.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAM YSG. Performed the experiments: YSG FN. Analyzed the data: YSG CAM AJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMO FM MG SPY CLM ENG WLM MAG. Wrote the paper: YSG CAM.