About the Authors

Gaoqian Feng

Affiliation Department of Medicine (RMH/WH), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Julie A. Simpson

Affiliation Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Ebbie Chaluluka

Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Program, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Malcolm E. Molyneux

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

Stephen J. Rogerson

sroger@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Department of Medicine (RMH/WH), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEM SJR. Performed the experiments: EC. Analyzed the data: GF JAS SJR. Wrote the paper: GF JAS SJR.