About the Authors

Laurent Dembele

Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Dembele, Audrey Gego

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France

Audrey Gego

Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Dembele, Audrey Gego

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France

Anne-Marie Zeeman

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Jean-François Franetich

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France

Olivier Silvie

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France

Armelle Rametti

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France

Roger Le Grand

Affiliations Division of Immuno-Virology, Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies (IMETI), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR-E01, Orsay, France

Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet

Affiliations Division of Immuno-Virology, Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies (IMETI), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR-E01, Orsay, France

Robert Sauerwein

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

Geert-Jan van Gemert

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

Jean-Christophe Vaillant

Affiliation Service de Chirurgie Digestive, Hépato-Bilio-Pancréatique et Transplantation Hépatique, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Alan W. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Georges Snounou

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France

Clemens H. M. Kocken

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Dominique Mazier

dominique.mazier@upmc.fr

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U945, Paris, France, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service Parasitologie-Mycologie, Paris, France

Competing Interests

Georges Snounou is a PLoS Academic Editor.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD AG J-FF OS GS DM. Performed the experiments: LD AG J-FF AR. Analyzed the data: LD AG J-FF OS GS DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: A-MZ RLG ND-B RS G-JvG J-CV AWT CHMK. Wrote the paper: GS. Initiated P. cynomolgi hypnozoite research: AWT CHMK. Helped with the writing of the manuscript: LD AG J-FF OS DM A-MZ RLG ND-B RS G-JvG J-CV AWT CHMK.