About the Authors

Ricardo Ataíde

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Post Office Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, GABBA, Graduate Program in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Wina Hasang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Post Office Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Danny W. Wilson

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

James G. Beeson

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Division, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Victor Mwapasa

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Community Health, University of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Malcolm E. Molyneux

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Steven R. Meshnick

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen J. Rogerson

sroger@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Post Office Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA SJR. Performed the experiments: RA WH. Analyzed the data: RA SJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DWW JGB VM MEM SJR. Wrote the paper: RA DWW JGB MEM SRM SJR. Conceived and performed the phagocytosis assay: RA. Performed the Total IgG to CS2 VSA assay: WH. Wrote the original grant that financed the collection of the samples: SRM.