About the Authors

Carla van Tienen

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia

Maarten Schim van der Loeff

mschim@ggd.amsterdam.nl

Affiliation Municipal Health Service and Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ingrid Peterson

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia

Matthew Cotten

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia

Sören Andersson

Affiliation Swedish Institute of Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Birgitta Holmgren

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Tim Vincent

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia

Thushan de Silva

Affiliations Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia, University College London Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Sarah Rowland-Jones

Affiliation Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Human Immunology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Peter Aaby

Affiliation Projecto de Saúde de Bandim, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Hilton Whittle

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW PA SR-J MSvdL BH SA. Performed the experiments: CvT TV MSvdL MC. Analyzed the data: CvT IP MC MSvdL TdS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH SA. Wrote the paper: CvT MSvdL MC.