About the Authors

Teun Bousema

Affiliations Department of Immunology & Infection, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Joint Malaria Programme, Moshi, Tanzania

Will Roeffen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Hinta Meijerink

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Harry Mwerinde

Affiliation TPC District Designated Hospital, Tanzania Plantation Company, Lower Moshi, Tanzania

Steve Mwakalinga

Affiliations Joint Malaria Programme, Moshi, Tanzania, Department of International Health, Immunology, and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Geert-Jan van Gemert

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Marga van de Vegte-Bolmer

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Frank Mosha

Affiliations Joint Malaria Programme, Moshi, Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Moshi, Tanzania

Geoffrey Targett

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infection, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Eleanor M. Riley

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infection, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Robert Sauerwein

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Chris Drakeley

chris.drakeley@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Immunology & Infection, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Joint Malaria Programme, Moshi, Tanzania

Competing Interests

Dr Mwerinde works at a hospital within the TPC grounds but is not employed by them. He is employed by the government. 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: GT EMR CD. Performed the experiments: TB WR H. Meijerink H. Mwerinde SBM GJvG MvdVB FM CD. Analyzed the data: TB WR CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS CD. Wrote the paper: TB GT EMR RS CD.